--- title: "4 Dogma Quotes By Gilbert Ryle" description: "4 Dogma quotes by Gilbert Ryle. Plus more from Gilbert Ryle and more Dogma sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eaf/gilbert-ryle-24471_body_the-dogma-of-the-ghost-in-the-machine-ma_408591.png" --- > [The dogma of the Ghost in the Machine ... maintains that there exist both bodies and minds; that there occur physical processes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-ryle/the-dogma-of-the-ghost-in-the-machine-maintains-that-there-exist-both/) [Gilbert Ryle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilbert-ryle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eaf/gilbert-ryle-24471_body_the-dogma-of-the-ghost-in-the-machine-ma_408591.png) > [When two terms belong to the same category, it is proper to construct conjunctive propositions embodying them. Thus a purchaser may say…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-ryle/when-two-terms-belong-to-the-same-category-it-is-proper-to-construct/) [Gilbert Ryle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilbert-ryle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a49/gilbert-ryle-24471_absurdity_when-two-terms-belong-to-the-same-catego_921955.jpg) > [Contemporary philosophers have exercised themselves with the problem of our knowledge of other minds. Enmeshed in the dogma of the ghost in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-ryle/contemporary-philosophers-have-exercised-themselves-with-the-problem/) [Gilbert Ryle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilbert-ryle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/20a/gilbert-ryle-24471_believe_contemporary-philosophers-have-exercised_1510671.png) > [The dogma of the Ghost in the machine.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-ryle/the-dogma-of-the-ghost-in-the-machine/) [Gilbert Ryle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilbert-ryle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/499/gilbert-ryle-24471_computers_the-dogma-of-the-ghost-in-the-machine-25_2554415.png) ## Other authors on Dogma - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b005/author-bertrand-russell-17477.jpg) Bertrand Russell 15 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/dogma/bertrand-russell/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b010/author-gilbert-k-chesterton-38545.jpg) Gilbert K. Chesterton 11 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/dogma/gilbert-k-chesterton/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b021/author-sam-harris-82504.jpg) Sam Harris 9 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/dogma/sam-harris/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b023/author-thomas-jefferson-90435.jpg) Thomas Jefferson 7 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/dogma/thomas-jefferson/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b020/author-robert-green-ingersoll-79794.jpg) Robert Green Ingersoll 7 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/dogma/robert-green-ingersoll/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b001/author-rock-cowles-2590.jpg) Rock Cowles 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/dogma/rock-cowles/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b001/author-abhijit-naskar-99.jpg) Abhijit Naskar 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/dogma/abhijit-naskar/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b002/author-robert-g-ingersoll-4527.jpg) Robert G. Ingersoll 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/dogma/robert-g-ingersoll/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b001/author-g-k-chesterton-224.jpg) G.K. Chesterton 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/dogma/g-k-chesterton/) ## More by Gilbert Ryle > [Absolute solitude is on this showing the ineluctable destiny of the soul. Only our bodies can meet.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-ryle/absolute-solitude-is-on-this-showing-the-ineluctable-destiny-of-the/) [Gilbert Ryle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilbert-ryle/) > [Man need not be degraded to a machine by being denied to be a ghost in a machine. He might, after all, be a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-ryle/man-need-not-be-degraded-to-a-machine-by-being-denied-to-be-a-ghost/) [Gilbert Ryle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilbert-ryle/) > [In searching for the self, one cannot simultaneously be the hunter and the hunted.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-ryle/in-searching-for-the-self-one-cannot-simultaneously-be-the-hunter-and/) [Gilbert Ryle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilbert-ryle/) > [A myth is, of course, not a fairy story. It is the presentation of facts belonging to one category in the idioms appropriate to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-ryle/a-myth-is-of-course-not-a-fairy-story-it-is-the-presentation-of-facts/) [Gilbert Ryle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilbert-ryle/) > [The dogma of the Ghost in the Machine ... maintains that there exist both bodies and minds; that there occur physical processes and mental…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-ryle/the-dogma-of-the-ghost-in-the-machine-maintains-that-there-exist-both/) [Gilbert Ryle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilbert-ryle/) > [Dreamers of dreams may be pathfinders; but they may be mere vagrants. Of those who depart from the pavements, only a few are explorers:…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-ryle/dreamers-of-dreams-may-be-pathfinders-but-they-may-be-mere-vagrants/) [Gilbert Ryle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilbert-ryle/) > [“Minds are not bits of clockwork, they are just bits of not-clockwork. As thus represented, minds are not merely ghosts harnessed to machines, they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-ryle/minds-are-not-bits-of-clockwork-they-are-just-bits-of-not-clockwork/) [Gilbert Ryle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilbert-ryle/) > [Only through the medium of the public physical world can the mind of one person make a difference to the mind of another. The…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-ryle/only-through-the-medium-of-the-public-physical-world-can-the-mind-of/) [Gilbert Ryle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilbert-ryle/) > [When two terms belong to the same category, it is proper to construct conjunctive propositions embodying them. Thus a purchaser may say that he…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-ryle/when-two-terms-belong-to-the-same-category-it-is-proper-to-construct/) [Gilbert Ryle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilbert-ryle/) > [So too Plato was, in my view, a very unreliable Platonist. He was too much of a philosopher to think that anything he had…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-ryle/so-too-plato-was-in-my-view-a-very-unreliable-platonist-he-was-too/) [Gilbert Ryle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilbert-ryle/) > [To see is one thing; to picture or visualise is another. A person can see things, only when his eyes are open, and when…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-ryle/to-see-is-one-thing-to-picture-or-visualise-is-another-a-person-can/) [Gilbert Ryle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilbert-ryle/) > [Contemporary philosophers have exercised themselves with the problem of our knowledge of other minds. Enmeshed in the dogma of the ghost in the machine,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-ryle/contemporary-philosophers-have-exercised-themselves-with-the-problem/) [Gilbert Ryle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilbert-ryle/) > [“A person who has a good nose for arguments or jokes may have a bad head for facts.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-ryle/a-person-who-has-a-good-nose-for-arguments-or-jokes-may-have-a-bad/) [Gilbert Ryle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilbert-ryle/) > [To explode a myth is accordingly not to deny the facts but to re-allocate them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-ryle/to-explode-a-myth-is-accordingly-not-to-deny-the-facts-but-to-re/) [Gilbert Ryle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilbert-ryle/) > [When the epistemologists' concept of consciousness first became popular, it seems to have been in part a transformed application of the Protestant notion of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-ryle/when-the-epistemologists-concept-of-consciousness-first-became/) [Gilbert Ryle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilbert-ryle/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/dogma/gilbert-ryle/#itemlist", "name": "4 Dogma Quotes By Gilbert Ryle", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The dogma of the Ghost in the Machine ... maintains that there exist both bodies and minds; that there occur physical processes and mental processes; that there are mechanical causes of corporeal movements and mental causes of corporeal movements.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Gilbert Ryle" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-ryle/the-dogma-of-the-ghost-in-the-machine-maintains-that-there-exist-both/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eaf/gilbert-ryle-24471_body_the-dogma-of-the-ghost-in-the-machine-ma_408591.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eaf/gilbert-ryle-24471_body_the-dogma-of-the-ghost-in-the-machine-ma_408591.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eaf/gilbert-ryle-24471_body_the-dogma-of-the-ghost-in-the-machine-ma_408591.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The dogma of the Ghost in the Machine ... maintains that there exist both bodies and minds; that there occur…” — Gilbert Ryle", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "When two terms belong to the same category, it is proper to construct conjunctive propositions embodying them. 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