Thomas Nagel quote: The existence of conscious minds and their access to the evident truth of ethics and methematics are among the data ...

The existence of conscious minds and their access to the evident truth of ethics and methematics are among the data that a theory of the world and our place in it has yet to explain.

~ Thomas Nagel ~

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