« All Our Tools Quotes
·
John Searle's Page
Our Tools Quotes by John Searle
1 Our Tools quote by John Searle
More Quotes by John Searle
John Searle has 27 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
-
We do not live in several different, or even two different, worlds, a mental world and a physical world, a scientific world…
-
Many people mistakenly suppose that the essence of consciousness is that of a control mechanism
-
Darwin's greatest achievement was to show that the appearance of purpose, planning, teleology (design), and intentionality in the origin and development of…
-
We often attribute 'understanding' and other cognitive predicates by metaphor and analogy to cars, adding machines, and other artifacts, but nothing is…
-
It seemed to a number of philosophers of language, myself included, that we should attempt to achieve a unification of Chomsky's syntax,…
-
Our tools are extensions of our purposes, and so we find it natural to make metaphorical attributions of intentionality to them; but…
-
My car and my adding machine understand nothing: they are not in that line of business
-
In many cases it is a matter for decision and not a simple matter of fact whether x understands y; and so…
-
I will argue that in the literal sense the programmed computer understands what the car and the adding machine understand, namely, exactly…
-
Where conscious subjectivity is concerned, there is no distinction between the observation and the thing observed
-
Where questions of style and exposition are concerned I try to follow a simple maxim: if you can't say it clearly you…
-
You can't *discover* that the brain is a digital computer. You can only *interpret* the brain as a digital computer.
See all 27 quotes by John Searle »
More Our Tools Quotes
Popular Our Tools quotes from across the collection:
-
Fiction is not necessarily about what you know, it's about how you feel. That is the truth about fiction, and the other…
— Margaret Atwood
-
Progress, under whose feet the grass mourns and the forest turns into paper from which newspaper plants grow, has subordinated the purpose…
— Karl Kraus
-
When our tools are broken, we feel broken. And when somebody fixes one, we feel a tiny bit more whole.
— Jonathan Ive
-
Our strengths are our tools, our personal reality. Our weaknesses are only what we are not.
— Joseph Batten
-
Our tools are better than we are, and grow better faster than we do. They suffice to crack the atom, to command…
— Aldo Leopold
-
Third, there is value in any experience that exercises those ethical restraints collectively called 'sportsmanship'. Our tools for the pursuit of wildlife…
— Aldo Leopold
-
There comes a time in the life of us all when we must lay aside our books or put down our tools…
— Edward Abbey
-
Our tools are extensions of our purposes, and so we find it natural to make metaphorical attributions of intentionality to them; but…
— John Searle
-
It is not just that science and technology are possible means of great human satisfaction, as well as a matrix of complex…
— Donna J. Haraway
-
There is a race between the increasing complexity of the systems we build and our ability to develop intellectual tools for understanding…
— Leslie Lamport
-
If someone takes something from me I’m going to grab it right back out of their cold, twisted sick hands and say…
— Michael Mulgrew
-
First we shape our tools, thereafter they shape us
— Marshall McLuhan
See all Our Tools Quotes »
Browse John Searle Quotes by Category