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John Searle Quotes

There is no success or failure in Nature Picture Quote #1

I will argue that in the literal sense the programmed computer understands what the car and the adding machine understand, namely, exactly nothing Picture Quote #1

Berkeley had a liberal element in the student body who tended to be quite active. I think that’s in general a feature of intellectually active places Picture Quote #1

Darwin’s greatest achievement was to show that the appearance of purpose, planning, teleology (design), and intentionality in the origin and development of human and animal species was entirely an illusion. The illusion could be explained by evolutionary processes that contained no such purpose at all. But the spread of ideas through imitation required the whole apparatus of human consciousness and intentionality Picture Quote #1

Where questions of style and exposition are concerned I try to follow a simple maxim: if you can’t say it clearly you don’t understand it yourself Picture Quote #1

We often attribute ‘understanding’ and other cognitive predicates by metaphor and analogy to cars, adding machines, and other artifacts, but nothing is proved by such attributions Picture Quote #1

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Whatever is referred to must exist. Let us call this the axiom of existence Picture Quote #1

Many people mistakenly suppose that the essence of consciousness is that of a control mechanism Picture Quote #1

If you can’t say it clearly, you don’t understand it yourself Picture Quote #1

Dualism makes the problem insoluble; materialism denies the existence of any phenomenon to study, and hence of any problem Picture Quote #1

Finally, and perhaps most importantly, you need to acquire the skills of writing and speaking that make for candor, rigor, and clarity. You cannot think clearly if you cannot speak and write clearly Picture Quote #1

You need to know enough of the natural sciences so that you are not a stranger in the world Picture Quote #1

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The ascription of an unconscious intentional phenomenon to a system implies that the phenomenon is in principle accessible to consciousness Picture Quote #1

The problem posed by indirect speech acts is the problem of how it is possible for the speaker to say one thing and mean that but also to mean something else Picture Quote #1

I will argue that in the literal sense the programmed computer understands what the car and the adding machine understand, namely, exactly nothing Picture Quote #1

Materialism ends up denying the existence of any irreducible subjective qualitative states of sentience or awareness Picture Quote #1

You do not understand your own tradition if you do not see it in relation to others Picture Quote #1

We do not live in several different, or even two different, worlds, a mental world and a physical world, a scientific world and a world of common sense. Rather, there is just one world; it is the world we all live in, and we need to account for how we exist as part of it Picture Quote #1

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Where conscious subjectivity is concerned, there is no distinction between the observation and the thing observed Picture Quote #1

There are clear cases in which understanding literally applies and clear cases in which it does not apply; and these two sorts of cases are all I need for this argument Picture Quote #1

In many cases it is a matter for decision and not a simple matter of fact whether x understands y; and so on Picture Quote #1

I want to block some common misunderstandings about understanding: In many of these discussions one finds a lot of fancy footwork about the word understanding Picture Quote #1

Berkeley had a liberal element in the student body who tended to be quite active. I think that’s in general a feature of intellectually active places Picture Quote #1

My car and my adding machine understand nothing: they are not in that line of business Picture Quote #1

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There is no success or failure in Nature (John Searle Quotes) I will argue that in the literal sense the programmed computer understands what the car and the adding machine understand, namely, exactly nothing. (John Searle Quotes) Berkeley had a liberal element in the student body who tended to be quite active. I think that’s in general a feature of intellectually active places. (John Searle Quotes) Darwin’s greatest achievement was to show that the appearance of purpose, planning, teleology (design), and intentionality in the origin and development of human and animal species was entirely an illusion. The illusion could be explained by evolutionary processes that contained no such purpose at all. But the spread of ideas through imitation required the whole apparatus of human consciousness and intentionality (John Searle Quotes) Where questions of style and exposition are concerned I try to follow a simple maxim: if you can’t say it clearly you don’t understand it yourself (John Searle Quotes) We often attribute ‘understanding’ and other cognitive predicates by metaphor and analogy to cars, adding machines, and other artifacts, but nothing is proved by such attributions (John Searle Quotes) Whatever is referred to must exist. Let us call this the axiom of existence (John Searle Quotes) Many people mistakenly suppose that the essence of consciousness is that of a control mechanism (John Searle Quotes) If you can’t say it clearly, you don’t understand it yourself (John Searle Quotes) Dualism makes the problem insoluble; materialism denies the existence of any phenomenon to study, and hence of any problem (John Searle Quotes) Finally, and perhaps most importantly, you need to acquire the skills of writing and speaking that make for candor, rigor, and clarity. You cannot think clearly if you cannot speak and write clearly (John Searle Quotes) You need to know enough of the natural sciences so that you are not a stranger in the world (John Searle Quotes) The ascription of an unconscious intentional phenomenon to a system implies that the phenomenon is in principle accessible to consciousness (John Searle Quotes) The problem posed by indirect speech acts is the problem of how it is possible for the speaker to say one thing and mean that but also to mean something else (John Searle Quotes) I will argue that in the literal sense the programmed computer understands what the car and the adding machine understand, namely, exactly nothing (John Searle Quotes) Materialism ends up denying the existence of any irreducible subjective qualitative states of sentience or awareness (John Searle Quotes) You do not understand your own tradition if you do not see it in relation to others (John Searle Quotes) We do not live in several different, or even two different, worlds, a mental world and a physical world, a scientific world and a world of common sense. Rather, there is just one world; it is the world we all live in, and we need to account for how we exist as part of it (John Searle Quotes) Where conscious subjectivity is concerned, there is no distinction between the observation and the thing observed (John Searle Quotes) There are clear cases in which understanding literally applies and clear cases in which it does not apply; and these two sorts of cases are all I need for this argument (John Searle Quotes) In many cases it is a matter for decision and not a simple matter of fact whether x understands y; and so on (John Searle Quotes) I want to block some common misunderstandings about understanding: In many of these discussions one finds a lot of fancy footwork about the word understanding (John Searle Quotes) Berkeley had a liberal element in the student body who tended to be quite active. I think that’s in general a feature of intellectually active places (John Searle Quotes) My car and my adding machine understand nothing: they are not in that line of business (John Searle Quotes)