People who have cut their teeth on philosophical problems of rationality, knowledge, perception, free will and other minds are well placed to think better about problems of evidence, decision making, responsibility and ethics that life...

Irony is about contradictions that do not resolve into larger wholes, even dialectically, about the tension of holding incompatible things together because both or all are necessary and true. Irony is about humour an serious...

knowledge depends on the mode of the knower; for what is known is in the knower according to the measure of his mode

Definitions are the guardians of rationality, the first line of defense against the chaos of mental disintegration.

A great truth wants to be criticized not idolized

The command of our language is crucial to focusing our thoughts and communicating them with precision to others.

Knowledge is not discovery, but recognition.

The final discovery is the discovery of knowledge.

Maybe each human being lives in a unique world, a private world different from those inhabited and experienced by all other humans. . . If reality differs from person to person, can we speak of...

Erudition is the crude residue of wilted harvests; wit: the meddlesome weed that wilts them.

The best ship, the best culture, the best knowledge, is the one which allows us to go farther, explore more territories or oceans of reality, and have the least damaging leaks possible.