If we cannot find a way to interpret the utterances and other behaviour of a creature as revealing a set of beliefs largely consistent and true by our standards, we have no reason to count that creature as rational, as… — Donald Davidson Copy Share Image
Conceptual relativism is a heady and exotic doctrine, or would be if we could make good sense of it. The trouble is, as so… — Donald Davidson Copy Share Image
Even if someone knew the entire physical history of the world, and every mental event were identical with a physical, it would notfollow that… — Donald Davidson Copy Share Image
Mental events such as perceivings, rememberings, decisions, and actions resist capture in the net of physical theory. — Donald Davidson Copy Share Image
Nothing in the world, no object or event, would be true or false if there were not thinking creatures. — Donald Davidson Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as a language, not if a language is anything like what many philosophers and linguists have supposed. Thereis therefore… — Donald Davidson Copy Share Image
Terminological infelicities have a way of breeding conceptual confusion. — Donald Davidson Copy Share Image
The dominant metaphor of conceptual relativism, that of differing points of view, seems to betray an underlying paradox. Differentpoints of view make sense, but… — Donald Davidson Copy Share Image
If we cannot find a way to interpret the utterances and other behaviour of a creature as revealing a set of beliefs largely consistent… — Donald Davidson Copy Share Image
There are three basic problems: how a mind can know the world of nature, how it is possible for one mind to know another,… — Donald Davidson Copy Share Image
