"In many cases it is a matter for……" — John Searle
"In many cases it is a matter for decision and not a simple matter of fact whether x understands y; and so on"
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19 Quotes by John Searle
John Searle has 19 quotes on this site.
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We do not live in several different, or even two different, worlds, a mental world and a physical world, a…
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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…
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We often attribute 'understanding' and other cognitive predicates by metaphor and analogy to cars, adding machines, and other artifacts, but…
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It seemed to a number of philosophers of language, myself included, that we should attempt to achieve a unification of…
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Our tools are extensions of our purposes, and so we find it natural to make metaphorical attributions of intentionality to…
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My car and my adding machine understand nothing: they are not in that line of business
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I will argue that in the literal sense the programmed computer understands what the car and the adding machine understand,…
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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…
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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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Berkeley had a liberal element in the student body who tended to be quite active. I think that's in general…
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More Cases Quotes
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I think in the case of horror, it's a chance to confront a lot of your worse fears and those…
— Adam Arkin
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We keep putting on programmes about famine in Ethiopia; that's what's happening. Too many people there. They can't support themselves…
— David Attenborough
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Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.
— Jane Austen
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I was opposed to the U.S. involvement in Libya from the very start. President Obama has never made a compelling…
— Michele Bachmann
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They credited us with the birth of that sort of heavy metal thing. Well, if that's the case, there should…
— Ginger Baker
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Pride in the case of a rich man is bad, but pride in the case of a poor man is…
— Abu Bakr
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It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
— James A. Baldwin
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The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to…
— John Adams
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Dogs feel very strongly that they should always go with you in the car, in case the need should arise…
— Dave Barry
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To achieve some depth in your field requires a lot of sacrifices. Want to or not, you're thinking about what…
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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Just as we would have no need of the farmer's labor and toil if we were living amid the delights…
— Saint Basil
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