The ascription of an unconscious intentional phenomenon to a system implies that the phenomenon is in principle accessible to consciousness.

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.

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

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.

We are never more fully alive, more completely ourselves, or more deeply engrossed in anything, than when we are at play.

A writer leads a hyphenated-life with words

It was always 'Cher', I never thought of myself as anything but 'Cher'.

Most analysts are SO SMART and have amazing ideas, but they can't convey their genius ideas to others.

It does not matter what the whip is; it is none the less a whip, because you have cut thongs for it out of your own souls.

Against my protests a mausoleum was built on the Red Square, a monument unbecoming and offensive to the revolutionary consciousness.

Man is quite insane. He wouldn?t know how to create a maggot, and he creates Gods by the dozen.

No one should be subjected to force over things which belonged to him.

Cure yourself of the affliction of caring how you appear to others. Concern yourself only with how you appear before God, concern yourself only with the idea that God may have of you.

The IPCC doesn't do any research itself. We only develop our assessments on the basis of peer-reviewed literature.