"Akrasia" [weakness of will] in rational beings is as common as wine in France.

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.

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.

The Intentionality of the mind not only creates the possibility of meaning, but limits its forms.

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.

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."

You can't *discover* that the brain is a digital computer. You can only *interpret* the brain as a digital computer.

Many people mistakenly suppose that the essence of consciousness is that of a control mechanism

Where consciousness is concerned, the appearance is the reality.

The problem posed by indirect speech acts is the problem of how it is possible for the speaker to say one thing and mean that but also to mean something else.

Whatever is referred to must exist. Let us call this the axiom of existence.

Put in the time, learn something new, challenge your perception and know that a setback is an opportunity in hindsight

I hear a sacred voice.

If you suffer some losses, remember that after humility a reward from God will always follow

The only job a parent has is work themselves out of a job.

Right thinking plus right action equals right results." ~ Dr. MaryAnn Diorio

Because the truth is that gossip is as good as gospel in this town. You can save face but you won't ever save your soul. And that's a fact.

God is for men, and religion for women.

Too much of something is never good.

A permanent path That, once illuminated, Goes ever onward - a way home.

I relish the eight-hour format of a single season because it gives you time to do that.