Quotations: Analytic Philosophy

Human consciousness is just about the last surviving mystery.

• On The enigma of consciousness, their position: Illusionism80%

Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.

• On The point of philosophy, their position: Clarifying thought80%

The meaning of a word is its use in the language.

• On The meaning of words, their position: Use theory90%

The questions that we raise and our doubts depend on the fact that some propositions are exempt from doubt, are as it were like hinges on which those turn.

• On Relation to certainty, their position: Dogmatism70%

What is your aim in philosophy? — To show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle.

• On The point of philosophy, their position: Clarifying thought80%

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

• On Where the sacred resides, their position: Transcendence80%

I want to know what it is like for a bat to be a bat.

• On The enigma of consciousness, their position: Property dualism55%

All human knowledge is uncertain, inexact, and partial.

• On Relation to certainty, their position: Fallibilism

I cannot see how to refute the arguments for the subjectivity of ethical values, but I find myself incapable of believing that all that is wrong with wanton cruelty is that I don't like it.

• On Status of norms (metaethics), their position: Relativism65%

It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true.

• On Ethics of belief, their position: Evidentialism95%

Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.

• On Future generations, their position: Responsibility principle93%
• On Belonging, their position: Cosmopolitanism93%

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

• On The highest good, their position: Eudaimonism60%

Whatever knowledge is attainable, must be attained by scientific methods; and what science cannot discover, mankind cannot know.

• On Place of science, their position: Scientism88%

The original question, "Can machines think?", I believe to be too meaningless to deserve discussion.

• On Can a machine think, their position: The substrate does not matter100%