Jerry Fodor Quotes

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• No doubt, intuitions deserve respect. ...[but] I think that it is always up for grabs what an intuition is an intuition of. At a minimum,…
• ...monetary exchanges have interesting things in common; Gresham's law, if true, says what one of these interesting things is. But what is interesting about monetary…
• ...there are special sciences not because of the nature of our epistemic relation to the world, but because of the way the world is put…
• ...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 my…
• There are lots of cases where we know more about how the world works than we do about how we know how it works. That's…
• Self-pity can make one weep, as can onions.
• Philosophers who pay for their semantics by drawing checks on Darwin are in debt way over their heads.
• 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…
• To the best of my recollection, I became a philosopher because my parents wanted me to become a lawyer. It seems to me, in retrospect,…

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