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"In many cases it is a matter for decision and not a simple matter of fact whether x understands y; and so on."
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"One thing that most comic artists avoid is showing decisions. They show action, sure, and they show results, but they don't show (because it's difficult to show) the hero or the villain making a choice."
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"The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years."
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"See that the President, the Cabinet and staff are informed. If cut out of the information flow, their decisions may be poor, not made, or not confidently or persuasively implemented."
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"There are a lot of things that have to be considered in National. The military aspect of it is only one of them. I'm confident that President Bush will have all of those things laid out for him before he makes the decision."
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"So I don't blame Boies for the decision of the Court at all."
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"The trip to Iraq confirmed that I made the right decision when I voted against lending Iraq the $18 billion the United States plans to use to help rebuild the country."
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"Jerry Rice made the decision and we honestly tried to accommodate him the best way we can."
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"There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either."
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"It is only in our decisions that we are important."
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"Decisions should be based on facts, objectively considered."
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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."
Philosophy
"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."
Argument
"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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"In many cases it is a matter for decision and not a simple matter of fact whether x understands y; and so on."
Decision-Making
"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."
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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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