Top 13 Semantical Quotes
#1. How are we to adjudicate among rival ontologies? Certainly the answer is not provided by the semantical formula "To be is to be the value of a variable"; this formula serves rather, conversely, in testing the conformity of a given remark or doctrine to a prior ontological standard.
Willard Van Orman Quine
#2. The reason that no computer program can ever be a mind is simply that a computer program is only syntactical, and minds are more than syntactical. Minds are semantical, in the sense that they have more than a formal structure, they have a content.
John Searle
#4. I'm not quite sure what freedom is, but I know damn well what it ain't.
Assata Shakur
#5. You look up when you wish to be exalted. And I look down because I am exalted.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#7. I believe that there are certain things that could be taken care of that you don't need a strong political background in.
George Lopez
#8. In the womb, humans are free of microbes. Colonization begins during the journey down the birth canal, which is riddled with bacteria, some of which make their way onto the newborn's skin.
Robin Marantz Henig
#10. You can be all that you wish to be.
The power is in your own hands.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#11. The click [of a light switch] is the modern triumphal clarion proceeding us through life, announcing our entry into every lightless room.
Ben Katchor
#12. Today's connoisseurs of Sino-American relations seem to view the relationship through a dystopian prism; their gloomy commentaries are largely an assemblage of snapshots on contemporary interactions or day-to-day developments without a historical context.
Patrick Mendis
#13. It was through reading that I discovered the crucial, even sacrosanct place the rituals of drinking held in the American imagination - the ingenious way alcohol seemed to lubricate everything from onerous chitchat to self-conscious sexual advances.
Daphne Merkin
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