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Roy Wood Sellars Quotes on Truth

Roy Wood Sellars was an American philosopher, long-time professor at the University of Michigan, and one of the founders of the school of critical realism in early twentieth-century American philosophy. This page collects quotes attributed to Roy Wood Sellars on the topic of truth, drawn from across the philosopher's works.

Quotes

  • Attributed to Roy Wood Sellars:

    “Mind is a function of organized matter, not a substance apart.”

  • Attributed to Roy Wood Sellars:

    “Critical realism takes appearances seriously without confusing them with the real.”

  • Attributed to Roy Wood Sellars:

    “Naturalism is the philosophy that takes nature for what it is.”

  • Attributed to Roy Wood Sellars:

    “Religion must be reconceived without supernaturalism.”

  • Attributed to Roy Wood Sellars:

    “Knowledge mediates rather than mirrors the world.”