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"Whatever is referred to must exist. Let us call this the axiom of existence."
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"In an unfathomable expanse of universe supporting galaxies of star systems with orbiting planets innumerable, I am nothing. And yet to the few bodies encircling my tiny little spot in the world, I am essential."
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"If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning."
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"Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present."
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"I am alive because you want me to."
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"It is a subliminal thing. It is the tick of a clock that has ticked so long one no longer notices. Something is in a room when a man lives in it. Something is not in the room when a man is dead in it."
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"Each individual is born into life as a creation from the source, and as an inhabitant and visitor to this planet."
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"I'm not dead yet, just in a state of rapid decay, who isn't?"
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"Life before consciousness was like blank paper, so be it."
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"We live to live."
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"The massive lump of flesh that has created you, me, and maybe, animals, everything that has life will forever live."
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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.""
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"Whatever is referred to must exist. Let us call this the axiom of existence."
Existence
"My car and my adding machine understand nothing: they are not in that line of business."
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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."
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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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"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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"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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"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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