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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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"Most people do not understand the process of achieving and fulfilling a dream."
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"I pray for sufficient wisdom to understand that wisdom apart from God is the stuff of opinion tainted by the rot of bias. And if I am somehow apt to confuse such rubbish with wisdom, I will think myself wise but find myself living in a landfill."
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"If you are unable to reach a person you must know that this happens not because that the roads are closed but because you don't know the true paths to reach that person!"
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"Look for something good in each person, even if for some people you have to look a little harder."
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"Sex is a form of exploration, it is asking questions and getting answer."
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"It helps to not confuse theological philosophers with evangelists. There is a difference but objectively neither better than the other: an evangelist's mission is to convert, a theological philosopher's mission is to build an understanding of a position."
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"To think that we grasp the fullness of life is to say that by holding a mere drop of water in our hands we are able to understand the immensity of the ocean."
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"It is not that I am very intelligent, but I try to understand with love."
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"There was no conflict between science and religion ever. The conflicts were actually between two different systems of human understanding " one was science, which was based on rigorous observations and examinations, and the other was fundamentalism, that's based on undisputed belief on the scriptures."
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"It is called understanding when one accepts other's talks of wisdom; but, where is the wisdom filled talk in this era?"
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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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"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.""
Understanding
"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."
Question
"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."
Trust
"Where conscious subjectivity is concerned, there is no distinction between the observation and the thing observed."
Consciousness
"Whatever is referred to must exist. Let us call this the axiom of existence."
Existence
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