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Many people mistakenly suppose that the essence of consciousness is that of a control mechanism
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Darwin's greatest achievement was to show that the appearance of purpose, planning, teleology (design), and intentionality in the origin and development of…
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Our tools are extensions of our purposes, and so we find it natural to make metaphorical attributions of intentionality to them; but…
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My car and my adding machine understand nothing: they are not in that line of business
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We do not live in several different, or even two different, worlds, a mental world and a physical world, a scientific world…
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We often attribute 'understanding' and other cognitive predicates by metaphor and analogy to cars, adding machines, and other artifacts, but nothing is…
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It seemed to a number of philosophers of language, myself included, that we should attempt to achieve a unification of Chomsky's syntax,…
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In many cases it is a matter for decision and not a simple matter of fact whether x understands y; and so…
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The show business has all phases and grades of dignity, from the exhibition of a monkey to the exposition of that highest…
— P T Barnum
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I hope that this form of Adoration, with permanent exposition of the Blessed Sacrament, will continue into the future. Specifically, I hope…
— Pope John Paul II
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Perpetual Eucharistic Adoration with exposition needs a great push. People ask me: 'What will convert America and save the world?' My answer…
— Mother Teresa
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There are three necessary elements in a story - exposition, development, and drama. Exposition we may illustrate as "John Fortescue was a…
— Frank O'Connor
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Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can…
— A. R. Ammons
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Returning his pen to its holder, he told us, 'I will have him gutted with that scythe. I will hang him by…
— Patrick deWitt
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She holds up a finger. "I'm getting to it. Don't rush a girl in the middle of her exposition.
— Libba Bray
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Let it be understood, in the first place, that a science fiction story must be an exposition of a scientific theme and…
— Hugo Gernsback
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