Belief and knowledge are considered to be two different things. But they are not.

Language is not a handmaiden to perception; it is perception; it gives shape to what would otherwise be inert and dead.

We in universities are not in the democracy business. What we do, when we're doing it, is teach and learn.

This is what language does: organize the world into manageable, and in some sense artificial, units that can then be inhabited and manipulated.

It is of no help to us that there is an absolute truth of the matter of things because unfortunately, none of us are in a position to say definitively what that is - although we all think that we are.

No word floats without an anchoring connection within an overall structure.

Freedom of speech is not an academic value. Accuracy of speech is an academic value; completeness of speech is an academic value; relevance of speech is an academic value. Each of these is directly related to the goal of academic inquiry: getting a matter of fact right.