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Jerry Fodor Inspirational Quotes (9)

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On my bad days, I sometimes wonder what philosophers are for.
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I take it that computational processes are both symbolic and formal. They are symbolic because they are defined over representations, and they are formal because they apply to representations, in virtue of (roughly) the syntax of the representations.
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If, in short, there is a community of computers living in my head, there had also better be somebody who is in charge and, by God, it had better be me.
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No doubt, intuitions deserve respect. ...[but] I think that it is always up for grabs what an intuition is an intuition of. At a minimum, it is surely sometimes up for grabs.
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The content of a thought depends on its external relations on the way that the thought is related to the world, not on the way that it is related to other thoughts.
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Who wins a... competition [between two traits] is massively context sensitive.
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I hate relativism. I hate relativism more than I hate anything else, excepting, maybe, fiberglass powerboats. Surely, surely, no one but a relativist would drive a fiberglass powerboat.
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The data that can bear on the confirmation of perceptual hypotheses includes, in the general case, considerably less than the organism may know.
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Methodological individualism is the doctrine that psychological states are individuated with respect to their causal powers.
Jerry Fodor