Analysis Quote by Patricia Churchland

I made the assumption, wrong of course, that conceptual analysis was a brief preliminary on the road to finding out about the nature of…

— Patricia Churchland

Given how long philosophers have been at conceptual analysis (I mean the 20th century stuff), and how many have been doing it, what can…

— Patricia Churchland

The more one analyses people, the more all reasons for analysis disappear. Sooner or later one comes to that dreadful universal thing called human…

— Oscar Wilde

Analysis destroys wholes. Some things, magic things, are meant to stay whole. If you look at their pieces, they go away.

— Robert James Waller

Logic and over-analysis can immobilise and sterilize an idea. It's like love. The more you analyse it, the more it disappears.

— William Bernbach

There's been essentially the same analysis over and over again and very little allowance made for different views and interpretations and reflections.

— Edward Said

Many philosophers in the second half of the 20th century really seemed to think that they were laying the foundations for science by laying…

— Patricia Churchland

It is, I think, particularly in periods of acknowledged crisis that scientists have turned to philosophical analysis as a device for unlocking the riddles…

— Thomas Kuhn

The essence of analysis is surprise. When people are themselves surprised by what they say, that's when they are really making some progress.

— Sigmund Freud

There is philosophy, which is about conceptual analysis - about the meaning of what we say - and there is all of this ...…

— A.J. Ayer

The world of conceptualized ideas is quite wonderful, even when it's - like Aristotle's Physics - an outmoded book. The physics is not true.…

— William H. Gass

The kind of approach I take is different from much of experimental philosophy. Although the experimental philosophers and I are certainly in agreement about…

— Hilary Kornblith