Quote by John Rogers Searle

“Intentional states function only given a set of Background capacities that do not themselves consist in intentional phenomena. Thus, for example, beliefs, desires, and…

— John Rogers Searle

“Any intentional state only functions, that is, it only determines conditions of satisfaction, against a set of Background abilities, dispositions, and capacities that are…

— John Rogers Searle

“Abstraction is the elimination of the irrelevant and the amplification of the essential.”

— Robert C. Martin

The appearances of natural objects are in themselves meaningless; the essential thing is feeling - in itself and completely independent of the context in…

— Kazimir Malevich

Fundamental ideas are not a consequence of experience, but a result of the particular constitution and activity of the mind, which is independent of…

— William Whewell

“Thinking isn’t just an activity; it manifests as a state of being.”

— Lori Deschene

“In learning, we draw an abstraction from concrete objects and events. In creating, we make our own concrete objects and events out of the…

— Ayn Rand

“It is possible to refine awareness itself so much that the emptiness of things, and the role mental construction plays, becomes a directly apprehended…

— Jay Michaelson

“background-research process, which combines exposure to potentially relevant material with free-form re-combination of ideas, comes straight out of Steven Johnson’s book, Where Good Ideas…

— Cal Newport

“Many realities hidden behind wall of perception.”

— Toba Beta

“The Power of Context is an environmental argument. It says that behavior is a function of social context.”

— Malcolm Gladwell

To say it another way, thinking, however abstract, originates in an embodied subjectivity, at once overdetermined and permeable to contingent events.

— Teresa de Lauretis