1645 | The desire to split everything into its parts is unpleasant and unphilosophical [Plato] |
22 | Trained minds never expect more precision than is possible [Aristotle] |
14165 | Analysis falsifies, if when the parts are broken down they are not equivalent to their sum [Russell] |
18714 | We already know what we want to know, and analysis gives us no new facts [Wittgenstein] |
23499 | This book says we should either say it clearly, or shut up [Wittgenstein] |
5195 | Critics say analysis can only show the parts, and not their distinctive configuration [Ayer] |
21839 | When I meet objections I just move on; they never contribute anything [Deleuze] |
17663 | If you know what it is, investigation is pointless. If you don't, investigation is impossible [Armstrong] |
2557 | Analytical philosophy seems to have little interest in how to tell a good analysis from a bad one [Rorty] |
2481 | Despite all the efforts of philosophers, nothing can ever be reduced to anything [Fodor] |
17082 | Paradox: why do you analyse if you know it, and how do you analyse if you don't? [Ruben] |
2958 | No one has ever succeeded in producing an acceptable non-trivial analysis of anything [Lockwood] |
3352 | Analytical philosophy analyses separate concepts successfully, but lacks a synoptic vision of the results [Benardete,JA] |
9978 | Analytic philosophy focuses too much on forms of expression, instead of what is actually said [Tait] |
6881 | Analytic philosophy studies the unimportant, and sharpens tools instead of using them [Mautner] |
10571 | Concern for rigour can get in the way of understanding phenomena [Fine,K] |
9297 | You can't understand love in terms of 'if and only if...' [Svendsen] |
9136 | The paradox of analysis says that any conceptual analysis must be either trivial or false [Sorensen] |
11147 | Naturalistic philosophers oppose analysis, preferring explanation to a priori intuition [Margolis/Laurence] |