Gilbert Ryle famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The dogma of the Ghost in the Machine ... maintains that there exist both bodies and minds; that there occur physical processes and mental processes; that there are mechanical causes of corporeal movements and mental causes of corporeal movements.
-- Gilbert Ryle

#Mind #Machines #Movement
To see is one thing; to picture or visualise is another. A person can see things, only when his eyes are open, and when his surroundings are illuminated; but he can have pictures in his mind's eye, when his eyes are shut and when the world is dark.
-- Gilbert Ryle

#Eye #Dark #Mind
Contemporary philosophers have exercised themselves with the problem of our knowledge of other minds. Enmeshed in the dogma of the ghost in the machine, they have found it impossible to discover any logically satisfactory evidence warranting one person in believing that there exist minds other than his own. I can witness what your body does, but I cannot witness what your mind does, and my pretensions to infer from what your body does to what your mind does all collapse, since the premises for such inferences are either inadequate or unknowable.
-- Gilbert Ryle

#Believe #Mind #Doe
It is of first-rate importance to notice from the start that stupidity is not the same thing, or the same sort of thing, as ignorance. There is no incompatibility between being well-informed and being silly, and a person who has a good nose for arguments or jokes may have a bad head for facts.
-- Gilbert Ryle

#Silly #Ignorance #Stupidity
Myths often do a lot of theoretical good, while they are still new.
-- Gilbert Ryle

#Myth #Stills #Theoretical
Philosophy is the replacement of category-habits by category-disciplines.
-- Gilbert Ryle

#Philosophy #Discipline #Replacements
To explode a myth is accordingly not to deny the facts but to re-allocate them.
-- Gilbert Ryle

#Facts #Deny #Myth
In searching for the self, one cannot simultaneously be the hunter and the hunted.
-- Gilbert Ryle

#Self #Hunters
Only through the medium of the public physical world can the mind of one person make a difference to the mind of another. The mind is in its own place and in each of us lies an inner life, the life of a ghostly Robinson Crusoe. People can see, hear, and jolt one another's bodies, but they are irremediably blind and deaf to the workings of one another's minds
-- Gilbert Ryle

#Lying #Differences #People
Absolute solitude is on this showing the ineluctable destiny of the soul. Only our bodies can meet.
-- Gilbert Ryle

#Destiny #Soul #Solitude
The dogma of the Ghost in the machine.
-- Gilbert Ryle

#Machines #Ghost #Dogma
Chronicles are not explanatory of what they record.
-- Gilbert Ryle

#Records #Chronicles
Man need not be degraded to a machine by being denied to be a ghost in a machine. He might, after all, be a sort of animal, namely, a higher mammal. There has yet to be ventured the hazardous leap to the hypothesis that perhaps he is a man.
-- Gilbert Ryle

#Animal #Men #Mammals
Man need not be degraded to a machine by being denied to be a ghost in a machine.
-- Gilbert Ryle

#Men #Needs #Machines
A myth is, of course, not a fairy story. It is the presentation of facts belonging to one category in the idioms appropriate to another. To explode a myth is accordingly not to deny the facts but to re-allocate them.
-- Gilbert Ryle

#Stories #Facts #Fairy
Dreamers of dreams may be pathfinders; but they may be mere vagrants. Of those who depart from the pavements, only a few are explorers: the rest are mere jaywalkers
-- Gilbert Ryle

#Dream #May #Pavement

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