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“The aim of philosophy, abstractly formulated, is to understand how things in the broadest possible sense of the term hang together in the broadest possible sense of the term. Under ‘things in the broadest possible sense’ I include such radically different items as not only ‘cabbages and kings’, but numbers and duties, possibilities and finger snaps, aesthetic experience and death. To achieve success in philosophy would be to ‘know one’s way around’ with respect to all these things, not in that unreflective way in which the centipede of the story knew its way around before it asked the question, “how do I walk?”, but in that reflective way which means that no intellectual holds are barred.” - WS
“My philosophy may be described as the attempt of
a physicist to make such conjecture as to the constitution of the universe
as the methods of science may permit with the aid of all that has been done
by previous philosophers. I shall support my propositions by such arguments
as I can. Demonstrative proof is not to be thought of. The demonstrations
of the metaphysicians are all moonshine. The best that can be done is to supply
a hypothesis, not devoid of all likelihood, in the general line of growth
of scientific ideas, and capable of being verified or refuted by future observers.”
- CSP
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