Argument Quote by Elliott Sober

However good an argument in philosophy may happen to be, it is generally not good enough.

— David Berlinski

Arguments are like eels: however logical, they may slip from the minds weak grasp unless fixed there by imagery and style.

— Alain de Botton

Generally speaking, I tend to think that whether a philosopher's views are true is a poor test of their quality. What matter are the…

— Richard F. Heck

“But although realism does not add anything to the catalogue of entities or properties that a subjectivist believes to exist in the world, it…

— Thomas Nagel

These arguments on each side (and many more might be produced) are so plausible, that I am apt to suspect, they may, the one…

— David Hume

It's difficult in the abstract to appreciate that those with morally objectionable viewpoints can still be good people.

— J. D. Vance

From the outset, however, this whole controversy has been plagued by tacit assumptions, very often of a philosophical rather than a physical character.

— David Bohm

Idealism leads to realism if it is strictly thought out.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

I enter into discussion and argument with great freedom and ease, inasmuch as opinion finds me in a bad soil to penetrate and take…

— Michel de Montaigne

Highly technical philosophical arguments of the sort many philosophers favor are absent here. That is because I have a prior problem to deal with.…

— Daniel Dennett

The terminology of philosophical art is coercive: arguments are powerful and best when they are knockdown, arguments force you to a conclusion, if you…

— Robert Nozick

Philosophy is an amazing tissue of really fine thinking and incredible, puerile mistakes. It's like one of those rubber 'bones' they give dogs to…

— Olaf Stapledon