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.
John Searle
It seemed to a number of philosophers of language, myself included, that we should attempt to achieve a unification of Chomsky's syntax, with the results of the researches that were going on in semantics and pragmatics. I believe that this effort has proven to be a failure. Though Chomsky did indeed revolutionize the subject of linguistics, it is not at all clear, at the end the century, what the solid results of this revolution are. As far as I can tell there is not a single rule of syntax that all, or even most, competent linguists are prepared to agree is a rule.
philosophy science language linguistics
My car and my adding machine understand nothing: they are not in that line of business.
car business
Well, what does good mean anyway..? As Wittgenstein suggested, good, like game, has a family of meanings. Prominent among them is this one: meets the criteria or standards of assessment or evaluation.
family game games
You need to know enough of the natural sciences so that you are not a stranger in the world.
science
The ascription of an unconscious intentional phenomenon to a system implies that the phenomenon is in principle accessible to consciousness.
principles system
The Intentionality of the mind not only creates the possibility of meaning, but limits its forms.
mind
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.
example purpose
places
The sense in which an automatic door understands instructions from its photoelectric cell is not at all the sense in which I understand English.
door
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.
style
I will argue that in the literal sense the programmed computer understands what the car and the adding machine understand, namely, exactly nothing.
car computers
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.
car
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.
belief
Finally, and perhaps most importantly, you need to acquire the skills of writing and speaking that make for candor, rigor, and clarity. You cannot think clearly if you cannot speak and write clearly.
candor
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