Life is what the least of us make the most of us feel the least of us make the most of.

For me the problem of induction is a problem about the world: a problem of how we, as we are now (by our present scientific lights), in a world we never made, should stand better than random, or coin-tossing chances changes of coming out right when we predict by inductions. . . .

Theory may be deliberate, as in a chapter on chemistry, or it may be second nature, as in the immemorial doctrine of ordinary enduring middle-sized physical objects.

Physics investigates the essential nature of the world, and biology describes a local bump. Psychology, human psychology, describes a bump on the bump.

Some may find comfort in reflecting that the distinction between an eliminative and an explicative physicalism is unreal.

We do not learn first what to talk about and then what to say about it.

To be is to be the value of a variable.