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“Without doubt, if we are to go back to that ultimate, integral experience, unwarped by the sophistications of theory, that experience whose elucidation is the final aim of philosophy, the flux of things is one ultimate generalization around which we must weave our philosophical system.”

Ifs Philosophy Doubt Theory Ultimate Philosophical Aim Finals Sophistication Flux Generalization

Book:Process and Reality

Source: Process and Reality

“There is no exercise of the intellect which is not, in the final analysis, useless. A philosophical doctrine begins as a plausible description of the universe; with the passage of the years it becomes a mere chapter if not a paragraph or a name in the history of philosophy.”

Ifs Years Philosophy Universe Names Exercise Philosophical Mere Finals Intellect Doctrine Useless Analysis Description Passages Chapters Paragraph Plausible

Book:Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings

Source: Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings

“The spontaneous tendency to invoke a Final Cause in explanation of every difficulty is characteristic of metaphysical philosophy. It arises from a general tendency towards the impersonation of abstractions which is visible throughout History.”

Philosophy Causes Difficulty Finals Arise Tendencies Explanation Characteristics Visible Spontaneous Metaphysical Abstraction Invoke

Book:Aristotle: a chapter from the history of science including analyses of Aristotle's scientific writings

Source: Aristotle: a chapter from the history of science including analyses of Aristotle's scientific writings

“Man's quest for knowledge is an expanding series whose limit is infinity, but philosophy seeks to attain that limit at one blow, by a short circuit providing the certainty of complete and inalterable truth. Science meanwhile advances at its gradual pace, often slowing to a crawl, and for periods it even walks in place, but eventually it reaches the various ultimate trenches dug by philosophical thought, and, quite heedless of the fact that it is not supposed to be able to cross those final barriers to the intellect, goes right on.”

Source: His Master's Voice

“A great philosophy is not one that passes final judgments and establishes ultimate truth. It is one that causes uneasiness and starts commotion.”

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Author:Charles Peguy

“The final arbitrator in philosophy is not how we think but what we do.”

Thinking Philosophy Finals

Book:Representing and Intervening: Introductory Topics in the Philosophy of Natural Science

Source: Representing and Intervening: Introductory Topics in the Philosophy of Natural Science

“The final philosophy is the ontology of God.”

Philosophy Finals Ontology

Author:Kedar Joshi

“After two years of undergraduate study, it was clear that I was bored by the regime of problem-solving required by the Cambridge mathematical tripos. A very sensitive mathematics don recommended that I talk to the historian of astronomy, Michael Hoskin, and the conversation led me to enroll in the History and Philosophy of Science for my final undergraduate year.”