Breeding Quote by Donald Davidson Download Open image “Terminological infelicities have a way of breeding conceptual confusion.” — Donald Davidson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Breeding Confusion Way
Are you insinuating that I am a purveyor of terminological inexactitudes? — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
As a result, nature is something entirely different from what comes to mind when we invoke its name. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
First, they were bred when I was not capable to observe or before I was born; likewise the breeding of men is of a… — Margaret Cavendish Copy Share Image
Hence it happens that one takes words for concepts, and concepts for the things themselves — Johann Georg Hamann Copy Share Image
“Categorizing is necessary for humans, but it becomes pathological when the category is seen as definitive, preventing people from considering the fuzziness of boundaries,” — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Courtesy is breeding. Breeding is an excellent thing. Always remember that. — Lillian Hellman Copy Share Image
Real good-breeding is independent of the forms and refinements of what has assumed to itself the name of society. — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
Evolutionary psychology offers a parsimonious framework for understanding which domains are likely to yield sex differences and, if so, in which direction. — Gad Saad Copy Share Image
When a trait is universal, evolutionary biologists look for a genetic explanation and wonder how that gene or genes might enhance survival or reproductive… — Robin Marantz Henig Copy Share Image
Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others. — Anonymous 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
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
There are few defects in our nature so glaring as not to be veiled from observation by politeness and good-breeding. — Stanisław I Leszczyński Copy Share Image
There is no society or conversation to be kept up in the world without good-nature, or something which must bear its appearance and supply… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Exchange of breeding individuals between two populations tends to homogenize their gene pools. — Peter R. Grant Copy Share Image
Good-breeding is not confined to externals, much less to any particular dress or attitude of the body; it is the art of pleasing, or… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
Growing up in that fashion is a breeding ground for insecurity and doubt; it also leaves you questioning motives. It took me a long… — Damon Runyon Copy Share Image
No parent can consistently teach faith in Christ who profanes the name of Deity. Profanity is never heard in the well-ordered home. Swearing is… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
In a way, human beings have never been part of the natural order; we're not biological in the normal sense. Normal biological animals stop… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
Compliments of congratulation are always kindly taken, and cost nothing but pen, ink and paper. I consider them as draughts upon good breeding, where… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Organized charity itself is. . . the surest sign that our civilization has bred, is breeding and is perpetuating constantly increasing numbers of defectives,… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
I think it is more of an intuitive, circular kind of personality, for starters. And, as I say of horses, the secret to breeding… — Alice Walton Copy Share Image
Not that I am ashamed of my mind or body, my birth or breeding, my actions or fortunes, for my bashfulness is in my… — Margaret Cavendish Copy Share Image
