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"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."
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"Most of the arguments to which I am party fall somewhat short of being impressive, knowing to the fact that neither I nor my opponent knows what we are talking about."
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"Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing."
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"You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it."
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"It's not about whether or not someone is a bigot, but whether or not the argument which that someone is arguing is worth being a bigot about."
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"In one sense I feel that my book is a one-woman argument against determinism."
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"In the discovery of secret things and in the investigation of hidden causes, stronger reasons are obtained from sure experiments and demonstrated arguments than from probable conjectures and the opinions of philosophical speculators of the common sort."
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"The argument of the strongest is always the best."
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"Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument."
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"In Vegas, I got into a long argument with the man at the roulette wheel over what I considered to be an odd number."
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"We are not won by arguments that we can analyze, but by tone and temper; by the manner, which is the man himself."
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"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."
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"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."
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"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."
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"I will argue that in the literal sense the programmed computer understands what the car and the adding machine understand, namely, exactly nothing."
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"An utterance can have Intentionality, just as a belief has Intentionality, but whereas the Intentionality of the belief is intrinsic the Intentionality of the utterance is derived."
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"Where conscious subjectivity is concerned, there is no distinction between the observation and the thing observed."
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"Whatever is referred to must exist. Let us call this the axiom of existence."
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"Our tools are extensions of our purposes, and so we find it natural to make metaphorical attributions of intentionality to them; but I take it no philosophical ice is cut by such examples."
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"My car and my adding machine understand nothing: they are not in that line of business."
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"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.""
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