“The whole point of building theoretical systems is to explain what humans know by pre-theoretical experience. That is the starting point for any philosophy. That is the data it seeks to explain. If it fails to explain the data of experience, then it has failed the test. It has been falsified.” IfsKnowsHumansHas BeensPhilosophyWholeFailingBuildingTestsStartingDataTheoreticalStarting Point Author:Nancy Pearcey
“For me the starting point for everything - before strategy, tactics, theories, managing, organizing, philosophy, methodology, talent, or experience - is work ethic. Without one of significant magnitude, you're dead in the water.” PhilosophyWaterTalentTheoryEthicsStrategyStartingSignificantWork EthicTacticsMagnitudeStarting PointMethodology Book:The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership Source: The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership
“I try to build on our management philosophy. I try to understand what the threats and opportunities are for us. Uh, I try to make sure that we're driving innovation and creative destruction hard enough so we're not blindsided, and that our attitude is to, in starting any initiative, any business, is to focus on how we can create value for others, rather than how we maximize profit, because you can make money focusing on, "How do I maximize profit?"” TryingHardEnoughPhilosophyValuesOpportunityAttitudeCreativeFocusDestructionInnovationManagementThreatStartingProfitDrivingMaking MoneyInitiativeCreative Destruction Author:Charles Koch
“What we're starting to see is a quantum biology, it being applied in biology and cosmology and a host of other sciences, because it does really pertain to how we know. It really helps bring epistemology, which is how do we know what we know, out of the realm of philosophy and brings it into the realm of science.” KnowsDoePhilosophyHelpingStartingRealmsBiologyHostQuantumCosmologyEpistemology Author:Edgar Mitchell
“For a very long time science and philosophy were considered part of the same continuum and it was only within the last few hundred years they've been considered different areas of inquiry, and now we're starting to go back to the idea that maybe they aren't two separate realms of inquiry.” YearsLongTwoIdeasDifferentPhilosophyLastsLong TimeHundredAreasStartingRealmsInquiryContinuumScience And Philosophy Author:Brad Warner
“So this is my attempt to give a preliminary - probably far too crude - account of how philosophy by showing can really teach us. The attempts we make to work through problems by reasoning always presuppose starting points, and even the most self-critical philosophers adopt some of those starting points simply by picking them up from the social environments in which they grow up.” GivingSelfPhilosophyProblemSocialGrowsTeachGrowing UpEnvironmentAccountsStartingPhilosopherCriticalReasoningCrudeStarting PointSocial Environment Author:Philip Kitcher