Top 30 Fodor's Quotes
#1. Fodor's Choice | The Ledbury.
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#2. The Rough Guide to Nepal; The Great Sights of Canada; America by Car; Fodor's Guide to the Bahamas; Let's go Bhutan.
John Green
#3. The content of a thought depends on its external relations; on the way that the thought is related to the world, not on the way that it is related to other thoughts.
Jerry Fodor
#4. Philosophers who pay for their semantics by drawing checks on Darwin are in debt way over their heads.
Jerry Fodor
#5. I take it that computational processes are both symbolic and formal. They are symbolic because they are defined over representations, and they are formal because they apply to representations, in virtue of (roughly) the syntax of the representations.
Jerry Fodor
#6. Managers construct, rearrange, single out, and demolish many 'objective' features of their surroundings. When people act they unrandomize variables, insert vestiges of orderliness, and literally create their own constraints.
Karl E. Weick
#7. The data that can bear on the confirmation of perceptual hypotheses includes, in the general case, considerably less than the organism may know.
Jerry Fodor
#8. God wants us to know we are saved, for saved people are dangerous people, willing to face off with the world, unafraid of the consequences since they know that, whatever happens, they will have eternal life.
Max Lucado
#9. It does bear emphasis that slippery-slope arguments are notoriously invalid.
Jerry A. Fodor
#10. If there is a community of computers living in my head, there had also better be somebody who is in charge; and, by God, it had better be me.
Jerry Fodor
#11. Somebody would think I was trying to get favored treatment because my ancestors had the name Moon. And that's a joke.
Buzz Aldrin
#13. Some philosophers hold that philosophy is what you do to a problem until it's clear enough to solve it by doing science. Others hold that if a philosophical problem succumbs to empirical methods, that shows it wasn't really philosophical to begin with.
Jerry A. Fodor
#14. He didn't know why he was lying. Perhaps because his vanity was being engaged, and he wasn't above attending to his vanity.
Don Lee
#15. The critical principle of feminist theology is the promotion of the full humanity of women. Whatever denies, diminishes, or distorts the full humanity of women is, therefore, appraised as not redemptive.
Rosemary Radford Ruether
#16. If the Mentalese story about the content of thought is true, then there couldn't be a private language argument. Good. That explains why there isn't one. (In Critical Condition, p. 68)
Jerry A. Fodor
#17. There is a gap between the mind and the world, and (as far as anybody knows) you need to posit internal representations if you are to have a hope of getting across it. Mind the gap. You'll regret it if you don't.
Jerry A. Fodor
#18. Dead-end roads don't mean you've come to your end, just means you need to take a different detour.
Anthony Liccione
#19. One man's modus ponens is another man's reductio, as epistemologists are forever pointing out (In Critical Condition, p. 70)
Jerry A. Fodor
#20. Vehicle reservations on Vancouver to Victoria and Nanaimo and Vancouver to the Sunshine Coast routes are optional (but recommended especially for Vancouver to Victoria) and cost an additional C$15 to C$22. There is no
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#21. I hate relativism . I hate relativism more than I hate anything else, excepting, maybe, fiberglass powerboats ... surely, surely , no one but a relativist would drive a fiberglass powerboat.
Jerry Fodor
#22. No doubt, intuitions deserve respect ... [but] I think that it is always up for grabs what an intuition is an intuition of. At a minimum, it is surely sometimes up for grabs ...
Jerry Fodor
#23. On my bad days, I sometimes wonder what philosophers are for.
Jerry Fodor
#24. No matter how hard Evil tries, it can never quite match up to the power of Good, because Evil is ultimately self-destructive. Evil may set out to corrupt others, but in the process corrupts itself.
John Connolly
#25. Only a philosopher would consider taking Oedipus as a model for a normal, unproblematic relation between an action and the maxim of the act.
Jerry A. Fodor
#26. I rather doubt that life has a meaning. If I thought perhaps it did, and I wanted to find out what its meaning is, I don't imagine I'd ask someone whose credentials consist of a PhD in philosophy.
Jerry Fodor
#27. Another problem with worry is that it makes you forget your worth. Worry makes you feel worthless, forgotten, and unimportant.
Charles R. Swindoll
#28. Peterhof (Petrodvorets). Nicknamed the "Russian Versailles," the elaborate interiors, formal gardens, and beautiful fountains of Peter the Great's summer palace live up to their moniker. This is St. Petersburg's most famous imperial residence, located in the suburbs about 40 minutes away.
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#29. Methodological individualism is the doctrine that psychological states are individuated with respect to their causal powers.
Jerry Fodor
#30. The sun will rise tomorrow morning; I know that perfectly well. But figuring out how I could know it is, as Hume pointed out, a bit of a puzzle.
Jerry A. Fodor
