The huge majority of philosophers seem to think that including impure properties in the range of the quantifiers of the principle would make the principle trivial. I have argued that it does not.

Knowledge has the form of a tree, and since metaphysics is the most fundamental one of the theoretical disciplines, it represents the roots of the tree.

I do not believe in the bundle theory anyway. The bundle theory postulates universals and I do not believe in them; so I do not believe in the bundle theory.

The difference between resemblance nominalism and class nominalism is that the former, but not the latter, brings in resemblance to account for the truthmakers of the propositions in question.

At one point I took a copy of Berkeley's Principles from my father's library. That was the first philosophy book I read. I found it fascinating and wanted to read more philosophy.

Those who think that metaphysics is just misunderstood grammar will react to my giving metaphysics some place or another in the system of knowledge.

Although I felt I was quite good at criticising a philosophical position, I was not very good at defending and making a case for a philosophical position.

I think there is a metaphysical problem of the relation between mind and body. Thinking that there is no metaphysical dimension to the problem is an error.

Imperfect communities show that being a maximal resemblance class is not sufficient for being a property.

Paige had a sadness that was so desperate that it could not yet turn into anger.

College: two hundred people reading the same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books.

Act well your part, there all the honour lies.

I think I am much too valuable a creature to offer myself to a German bullet gratis and for fun.

99.99% of your creation is complete before you see ANY physical evidence of it.

I understand people have to go to work and earn money and bring up kids, but I always thought, "Why can't I just do what I want to do?"

Infatuation cannot be sustained indefinitely, my friend. Love that embraces the entire person is a monumental gift that takes time to grow.

The sages of old live again in us, and in opinions there is a metempsychosis.

Neither the entrepreneurs nor the farmers nor the capitalists determine what has to be produced. The consumers do that.

In Spain, actresses work until they are old. That's my plan.