Timothy Williamson Quotes
Timothy Williamson is a British philosopher, Wykeham Professor of Logic at the University of Oxford, and one of the most influential analytic philosophers of his generation. Knowledge and Its Limits defended the audacious thesis that knowledge is the most general factive mental state and cannot be analyzed in terms of more basic conditions such as belief, truth, and justification. The quotes below are attributed to Timothy Williamson, organized by topic.
Timothy Williamson on Knowledge
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Attributed to Timothy Williamson:
“Knowledge is first; belief and justification come after.”
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“Philosophy is not the description of our concepts but inquiry into the world.”
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Attributed to Timothy Williamson:
“Some concepts resist analysis into more familiar parts, but none resists all analysis.”
Timothy Williamson on Nature
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Attributed to Timothy Williamson:
“Modal claims are claims about how the world could have been.”
Timothy Williamson on Truth
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Attributed to Timothy Williamson:
“Vagueness is an epistemic phenomenon, not a semantic one.”