Even if someone knew the entire physical history of the world, and every mental event were identical with a physical, it would notfollow that he could predict or explain a single mental event (so described, of course).
Mental events such as perceivings, rememberings, decisions, and actions resist capture in the net of physical theory. - Donald Davidson
Mental events such as perceivings, rememberings, decisions, and actions resist capture in the net of physical theory.
- Donald Davidson
Even if someone knew the entire physical history of the world, and every mental event were identical with a physical, it would notfollow that he coul… - Donald Davidson
Even if someone knew the entire physical history of the world, and every mental event were identical with a physical, it would notfollow that he coul…
Nothing in the world, no object or event, would be true or false if there were not thinking creatures. - Donald Davidson
Nothing in the world, no object or event, would be true or false if there were not thinking creatures.
If we cannot find a way to interpret the utterances and other behaviour of a creature as revealing a set of beliefs largely consistent and true by ou… - Donald Davidson
If we cannot find a way to interpret the utterances and other behaviour of a creature as revealing a set of beliefs largely consistent and true by ou…
The dominant metaphor of conceptual relativism, that of differing points of view, seems to betray an underlying paradox. Differentpoints of view make… - Donald Davidson
The dominant metaphor of conceptual relativism, that of differing points of view, seems to betray an underlying paradox. Differentpoints of view make…
There are three basic problems: how a mind can know the world of nature, how it is possible for one mind to know another, and how it is possible to k… - Donald Davidson
There are three basic problems: how a mind can know the world of nature, how it is possible for one mind to know another, and how it is possible to k…
There is no such thing as a language, not if a language is anything like what many philosophers and linguists have supposed. Thereis therefore no suc… - Donald Davidson
There is no such thing as a language, not if a language is anything like what many philosophers and linguists have supposed. Thereis therefore no suc…
Conceptual relativism is a heady and exotic doctrine, or would be if we could make good sense of it. The trouble is, as so often in philosophy, it is… - Donald Davidson
Conceptual relativism is a heady and exotic doctrine, or would be if we could make good sense of it. The trouble is, as so often in philosophy, it is…
Terminological infelicities have a way of breeding conceptual confusion. - Donald Davidson
Terminological infelicities have a way of breeding conceptual confusion.
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