"Nonbeing must in some sense be, otherwise what is it that there is not? This tangled doctrine might be nicknamed Plat…"

"Wyman's overpopulated universe is in many ways unlovely. It offends the aesthetic sense of us who have a taste for de…"

"Modern empiricism has been conditioned in large part by two dogmas. One is a belief in some fundamental cleavage betw…"

"The word 'definition' has come to have a dangerously reassuring sound, owing no doubt to its frequent occurrence in l…"

"Our argument is not flatly circular, but something like it. It has the form, figuratively speaking, of a closed curve…"

"No particular experiences are linked with any particular statements in the interior of the field, except indirectly t…"

"Even a statement very close to the periphery can be held true in the face of recalcitrant experience by pleading hall…"

"As an empiricist I continue to think of the conceptual scheme of science as a tool, ultimately, for predicting future…"

"Tactically, conceptualism is no doubt the strongest position of the three; for the tired nominalist can lapse into co…"

"How are we to adjudicate among rival ontologies? Certainly the answer is not provided by the semantical formula "To b…"