Evidence Quote by Donald Davidson

“There are three basic problems: how a mind can know the world of nature, how it is possible for one mind to know another, and how it is possible to know the contents of our own minds without resort to observation or evidence. It is a mistake, I shall urge, to suppose that these questions can be collapsed into two, or taken into isolation.”

Donald Davidson

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Conceptual relativism is a heady and exotic doctrine, or would be if we could make good sense of it. The trouble is, as so…

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Mental events such as perceivings, rememberings, decisions, and actions resist capture in the net of physical theory.

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Nothing in the world, no object or event, would be true or false if there were not thinking creatures.

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There is no such thing as a language, not if a language is anything like what many philosophers and linguists have supposed. Thereis therefore…

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Terminological infelicities have a way of breeding conceptual confusion.

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The dominant metaphor of conceptual relativism, that of differing points of view, seems to betray an underlying paradox. Differentpoints of view make sense, but…

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The truth is, of course, that the curtness of the Ten Commandments is an evidence, not of the gloom and narrowness of a religion,…

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Never underestimate the power of the human mind to believe what it wants to believe, no matter the conflicting evidence.

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“Cops aren't really your friends, they are trying to be your friends but they are not.... - They are searching evidence to PIN YOU.”

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There's overwhelming evidence... circumstantial and otherwise, to suggest a connection between Iraq and al Qaeda.

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Miracles are like candles lit up until the sun rises, and then blown out. Therefore, I am amused when I hear sects and churches…

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“Human unhappiness is evidence of our immortality.”

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The state is in danger of falling into disrepute due to the evidence of its inadequate resources.

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There is still zero empirical evidence that anthropogenic production of CO2 is making any measurable contribution to the world's present warming trend.

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