Terminological infelicities have a way of breeding conceptual confusion.
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…
Terminological infelicities have a way of breeding conceptual confusion. - Donald Davidson
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…
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