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Susan Stebbing Biography

Lizzie Susan Stebbing (2 December 1885 – 11 September 1943) was a British philosopher. She belonged to the 1930s generation of analytic philosophy, and was a founder in 1933 of the journal Analysis.

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We come to think of an idealist as one who seeks to realize what is not in fact realizable. But, it is necessary to insist, to have ideals is not the same as to have impracticable ideals, however often it may be the case that our ideals are impracticable.

Case, Facts, Ideals, May, Realize, Thinking

It is an illusion to suppose that a Dictator makes himself; at most he seizes an opportunity made for him by passive, stupid, incompetent, and above all, unsatisfied and fearful men.

Illusion, Men, Opportunity, Passive, Stupid, Suppose

We easily fall into the habit of accepting compressed statements which save us from the trouble of thinking. Thus arises what I shall call 'Potted Thinking'.

Fall, Potted, Save, Thinking, Trouble

There is an urgent need to-day for the citizens of a democracy to think well. It is not enough to have freedom of the Press and parliamentary institutions. Our difficulties are due partly to our own stupidity, partly to the exploitation of that stupidity, and partly to our own prejudices and personal desires.

Democracy, Freedom, Prejudices, Stupidity, Think, Thinking

The opposite of thinking clearly is being muddled. To be conscious of being muddled is a horrible experience. To avoid it we may even be tempted to shut our minds and swallow a belief, ready-made, from some expert authority.

Thinking, Opposites, Mind, Belief, Opposite, Experience

It is not swinish to be happy unless one is happy in swinish ways.

Happiness, Happy, Swinish, Unless, Way, Ways

A system is said to be coherent if every fact in the system is related every other fact in the system by relations that are not merely conjunctive. A deductive system affords a good example of a coherent system.

Affords, Conjunctive, Example, Facts, Related, Said

To have ideals is not the same as to have impracticable ideals.

Ideals, Impracticable, Same

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