In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of the word 'experience' have been perceived, with the result that realists have more and more avoided the word. It is to be feared, however, that if the word is avoided the confusions of thought with which it has been associated may persist.

People are said to believe in God, or to disbelieve in Adam and Eve. But in such cases what is believed or disbelieved is that there is an entity answering a c…

Every philosophical problem, when it is subjected to the necessary analysis and justification, is found either to be not really philosophical at all, or else t…

The number of syllables in the English names of finite integers tends to increase as the integers grow larger, and must gradually increase indefinitely, since …

The word is not the thing.

The whole sense of the book might be summed up the following words: what can be said at all can be said clearly, and what we cannot talk about we must pass ove…

Let us repeat the two crucial negative premises as established firmly by all human experience: (1) Words are not the things we are speaking about; and (2) Ther…