"All
beautiful things are beautiful by the Beautiful."
Plato,
Phaedo
100de
"The tongue of the elephant is
exceedingly small and situated far back in the mouth, so that it is difficult
to get a sight of it."
Aristotle, The History of Animals, Book II, Part 6
"I can see that there are cookies in
the jar, but I cannot see that there is an external world."
Fred Dretske, Contemporary Debates in Epistemology, 20.
"Chairs do not exist"
Peter van Inwagen
"Not only do chairs exist, but there
exists the following object: the object composed of all the ears in the world."
Ted Sider
"Peter van Inwagen and Ted Sider
don't disagree"
Eli Hirsch
"It really is a nice theory. The only
defect I think it has is probably common to all philosophical theories. It's
wrong."
Saul Kripke