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Quotes from Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking — Daniel Dennett

1942–2024 United States

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The utility of a thought experiment is inversely proportional to the size of its departures from reality.

Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking (2013)

Philosophy — in every field of inquiry — is what you have to do until you figure out what questions you should have been asking in the first place.

Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking (2013)

The middle ground, roughly halfway between poetry and mathematics, is where philosophers can make their best contributions, I believe, yielding genuine clarifications of deeply puzzling problems.

Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking (2013)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Daniel Dennett (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.