"Whatever is referred to must exist. Let us……" — John Searle
"Whatever is referred to must exist. Let us call this the axiom of existence."
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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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In many cases it is a matter for decision and not a simple matter of fact whether x understands y;…
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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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More Axiom Quotes
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It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically.
— Aneurin Bevan
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There is an ancient Celtic axiom that says 'Good people drink good beer.' Which is true, then as now. Just…
— Hunter S. Thompson
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The writer who neglects punctuation, or mispunctuates, is liable to be misunderstood for the want of merely a comma, it…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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There is no more fundamental axiom of American freedom than the familiar statement: In a free country we punish men…
— Harry S. Truman
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Natura nihil agit frustra [Nature does nothing in vain] is the only indisputible axiom in philosophy. There are no grotesques…
— Thomas Browne
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We may lay it down as an incontestible axiom, that, in all the operations of art and nature, nothing is…
— Antoine Lavoisier
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Lagrange, in one of the later years of his life, imagined that he had overcome the difficulty (of the parallel…
— Augustus De Morgan
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I do not see why the axiom of Prudence should not be questioned, when it conflicts with present inclination, on…
— Henry Sidgwick
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It is an axiom of political science in the United States that the sole means of neutralizing the effects of…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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It is an old psychological axiom that constant exposure to the object of fear immunizes against the fear.
— Maxwell Maltz
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The axiom of conditioned repetition, like the binomial theorem, is nothing but a piece of insolence.
— Edward Abbey
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At root, vulgar just means popular on a mass scale. It is the semantic opposite of pretentious or snobby. It…
— David Foster Wallace
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