John Searle's Profile
Brief about John Searle: By info that we know John Searle was born at 1932-12-01. And also John Searle is American Philosopher.
Some John Searle's quotes. Goto "John Searle's quotation" section for more.Whatever is referred to must exist. Let us call this the axiom of existence.
Tags: Call, Existence, WhateverI will argue that in the literal sense the programmed computer understands what the car and the adding machine understand, namely, exactly nothing.
Tags: Car, Sense, UnderstandIn many cases it is a matter for decision and not a simple matter of fact whether x understands y; and so on.
Tags: Decision, Matter, SimpleMy car and my adding machine understand nothing: they are not in that line of business.
Tags: Business, Car, UnderstandWhere conscious subjectivity is concerned, there is no distinction between the observation and the thing observed.
Tags: Between, Concerned, ConsciousWhere 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.
Tags: Simple, Understand, YourselfAn 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.
Tags: Belief, Derived, IntrinsicBerkeley 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.
Tags: Body, Quite, StudentI want to block some common misunderstandings about 'understanding': In many of these discussions one finds a lot of fancy footwork about the word 'understanding.'
Tags: Common, Fancy, WordOur 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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