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Sense Quotes by Thomas Nagel
- Common sense doesn't have the last word in ethics or anywhere else, but it has, as J. L. Austin said about ordinary language, the first…
- It seems to me that, as it is usually presented, the current orthodoxy about the cosmic order is the product of governing assumptions that are…
- I'm not sure I understand how responsibility for our choices makes sense if they are not determined.
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