P. F. Strawson Quotes on Truth
Sir Peter Frederick Strawson was a British analytic philosopher and a long-standing fellow of University College, Oxford. This page collects quotes attributed to P. F. Strawson on the topic of truth, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to P. F. Strawson:
“Persons are the basic particulars of our conceptual scheme.”
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Attributed to P. F. Strawson:
“Descriptive metaphysics is content to describe the actual structure of our thought about the world.”
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Attributed to P. F. Strawson:
“It is no use looking for a transcendental deduction in the form of a knock-down argument.”
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“Strawson (1964) "Identifying Reference and Truth-Values", Theoria Vol xxx; As cited in: Paul Snowdon (2009) " Peter Frederick Strawson ", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy .”
The distinction between identifying reference and uniquely existential assertion is something quite undeniable. The sense in which the existence of something answering to a definite description used for the purpose of identifying reference, and its distinguishability by an audience from anything else, is presupposed and not asserted in an utterance containing such an expression, so used, stands ab