20th century Quote by Patricia Churchland

Eventually I realized that for contemporary philosophers conceptual analysis per se was an end in itself. For some, it was somehow supposed to lead…

— 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

I regarded as quite useless the reading of large treatises of pure analysis: too large a number of methods pass at once before the…

— Joseph-Louis Lagrange

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

I would welcome the passing of the idea of philosophy as defined by a method of conceptual analysis. But that is not the passing…

— Robert Adams

I started philosophy looking for answers. But along the way I came to prize exploring the questions. Progress in philosophy consists, I think, in…

— Kwame Anthony Appiah

The more important the subject and the closer it cuts to the bone of our hopes and needs, the more we are likely to…

— Stephen Jay Gould

“When the researchers compared whether process or analysis was more important in producing good decisions—those that increased revenues, profits, and market share—they found that…

— Chip Heath

Different ‘philosophies’ represent nothing but methods of evaluation, which may lead to empirical mis-evaluation if science and empirical facts are disregarded.

— Alfred Korzybski

When I was an institutional broker in a former life, I was a believer in the merits of using technical analysis. I found that…

— Rick Santelli

Results of one's views of the process with the science than the usual good value but of course that did not prove to memorize.(En)

— Achmad Tim Bukhari

Very often in mathematics the crucial problem is to recognize and discover what are the relevant concepts; once this is accomplished the job may…

— Israel Nathan Herstein