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> [I rather doubt that life has a meaning. If I thought perhaps it did, and I wanted to find out what its meaning is, I don't imagine I'd ask someone whose credentials consist of a PhD in philosophy.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jerry-fodor/i-rather-doubt-that-life-has-a-meaning-if-i-thought-perhaps-it-did/)

[Jerry Fodor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jerry-fodor/)

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## More by Jerry Fodor

> [Faculty Psychology is getting to be respectable again after centuries of hanging around with phrenologists and other dubious types. By faculty psychology I mean,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jerry-fodor/faculty-psychology-is-getting-to-be-respectable-again-after-centuries/)

[Jerry Fodor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jerry-fodor/)

> [...there are special sciences not because of the nature of our epistemic relation to the world, but because of the way the world is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jerry-fodor/there-are-special-sciences-not-because-of-the-nature-of-our-epistemic/)

[Jerry Fodor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jerry-fodor/)

> [...if it isn't literally true that my wanting is causally responsible for my reaching, and my itching is causally responsible for my scratching, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jerry-fodor/if-it-isn-t-literally-true-that-my-wanting-is-causally-responsible/)

[Jerry Fodor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jerry-fodor/)

> [To the best of my recollection, I became a philosopher because my parents wanted me to become a lawyer. It seems to me, in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jerry-fodor/to-the-best-of-my-recollection-i-became-a-philosopher-because-my/)

[Jerry Fodor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jerry-fodor/)

> [ Who wins a... competition \[between two traits\] is massively context sensitive. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jerry-fodor/who-wins-a-competition-between-two-traits-is-massively-context/)

[Jerry Fodor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jerry-fodor/)

> [It simply isn't true, for example, that being big is in general better for fitness than being small except when there are effects of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jerry-fodor/it-simply-isn-t-true-for-example-that-being-big-is-in-general-better/)

[Jerry Fodor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jerry-fodor/)

> [On my bad days, I sometimes wonder what philosophers are for.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jerry-fodor/on-my-bad-days-i-sometimes-wonder-what-philosophers-are-for/)

[Jerry Fodor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jerry-fodor/)

> [“Thought about the world is prior to thought about how to change the world. Accordingly, knowing-that is prior to knowing-how. Descartes was right and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jerry-fodor/thought-about-the-world-is-prior-to-thought-about-how-to-change-the/)

[Jerry Fodor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jerry-fodor/)

> [Suppose that the organism is given the problem of determining the analysis of a stimulus at a certain level of representation - e.g., the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jerry-fodor/suppose-that-the-organism-is-given-the-problem-of-determining-the/)

[Jerry Fodor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jerry-fodor/)

> [The theory of natural selection reduces to a banal truth: if a kind of creature flourishes in a kind of situation, then there must…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jerry-fodor/the-theory-of-natural-selection-reduces-to-a-banal-truth-if-a-kind-of/)

[Jerry Fodor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jerry-fodor/)

> [The degree of confirmation assigned to any given hypothesis is sensitive to properties of the entire belief system... simplicity, plausibility, and conservatism are properties…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jerry-fodor/the-degree-of-confirmation-assigned-to-any-given-hypothesis-is/)

[Jerry Fodor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jerry-fodor/)

> [The data that can bear on the confirmation of perceptual hypotheses includes, in the general case, considerably less than the organism may know.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jerry-fodor/the-data-that-can-bear-on-the-confirmation-of-perceptual-hypotheses/)

[Jerry Fodor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jerry-fodor/)

> [Philosophers who pay for their semantics by drawing checks on Darwin are in debt way over their heads.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jerry-fodor/philosophers-who-pay-for-their-semantics-by-drawing-checks-on-darwin/)

[Jerry Fodor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jerry-fodor/)

> [The content of a thought depends on its external relations; on the way that the thought is related to the world, not on the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jerry-fodor/the-content-of-a-thought-depends-on-its-external-relations-on-the-way/)

[Jerry Fodor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jerry-fodor/)

> [There are lots of cases where we know more about how the world works than we do about how we know how it works.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jerry-fodor/there-are-lots-of-cases-where-we-know-more-about-how-the-world-works/)

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