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John Searle has 27 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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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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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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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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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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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I will argue that in the literal sense the programmed computer understands what the car and the adding machine understand, namely, exactly…
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Where conscious subjectivity is concerned, there is no distinction between the observation and the thing observed
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Where questions of style and exposition are concerned I try to follow a simple maxim: if you can't say it clearly you…
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You can't *discover* that the brain is a digital computer. You can only *interpret* the brain as a digital computer.
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Popular Footwork quotes from across the collection:
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You've got to learn the footwork, the positioning, how to box out, how to pass, how to shoot your free throws. All…
— Oscar Robertson
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You have to teach now - tell a kid how to box out, tell him how to pass, teach him footwork. Players…
— Oscar Robertson
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I have never heard a dancer asking for advice about how to stay focused on her footwork, or a painter complaining about…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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A style is not a matter of camera angles or fancy footwork, it's an expression, an accurate expression of your particular opinion.
— Karel Reisz
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Footwork is one of the primary prerequisites to becoming a great player
— Mike Krzyzewski
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Desire outweighs footwork when it comes to crashing the glass
— Bill Self
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My game is a lot about footwork. If I move well, I play well.
— Roger Federer
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My new long anhyzer disc and controlled fairway driver. It gets the same beautiful flippy hyzer S shot as my Surge, I…
— Unknown Author
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I want to block some common misunderstandings about understanding: In many of these discussions one finds a lot of fancy footwork about…
— John Searle
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Somebody is going to have to do fancy footwork to make sure Elizabeth and John Edwards get their prime-time shot .
— Jeff Greenfield
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In the battle of existence, Talent is the punch; Tact is the clever footwork.
— Wilson Mizner
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When you have an audience standing and screaming the entire way through the short program and cheering every element you do, whether…
— Johnny Weir
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