Imperfect communities show that being a maximal resemblance class is not sufficient for being a property.

Knowledge has the form of a tree, and since metaphysics is the most fundamental one of the theoretical disciplines, it represents the roots of the tree.

I do not believe in the bundle theory anyway. The bundle theory postulates universals and I do not believe in them; so I do not believe in the bundle theory.

The difference between resemblance nominalism and class nominalism is that the former, but not the latter, brings in resemblance to account for the truthmakers of the propositions in question.

The huge majority of philosophers seem to think that including impure properties in the range of the quantifiers of the principle would make the principle trivial. I have argued that it does not.

At one point I took a copy of Berkeley's Principles from my father's library. That was the first philosophy book I read. I found it fascinating and wanted to read more philosophy.

Those who think that metaphysics is just misunderstood grammar will react to my giving metaphysics some place or another in the system of knowledge.

Although I felt I was quite good at criticising a philosophical position, I was not very good at defending and making a case for a philosophical position.

I think there is a metaphysical problem of the relation between mind and body. Thinking that there is no metaphysical dimension to the problem is an error.

It was a fruit we had never seen before, larger than an apple, about the size of a grapefruit. It was round and yellow like the leaves of a neglected book.

Pain fuels artistry and creativity. Harness your suffering and become a master of your art.

Her smile was like laughter to me— it bubbled in like champagne.

The innocent is the person who explains nothing

I'll write to you. A super-long letter, like in an old-fashioned novel

Someday my paintings will be hanging in the Louvre. [Vincent Van Gogh]

It's impossible to ravish me, I'm so willing.

Attempting to understand consciousness with your mind, is like trying to illuminate the sun with a candle.

Less volatile stocks tend to have negative abnormal profits; more volatile stocks tend to have positive abnormal profits.

There's a big difference between not settling and not starting.