David Malet Armstrong famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Mathematics is concerned with "all possible worlds."
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The concept of a mental state is primarily the concept of a state of the person apt for bringing about a certain sort of behaviour.
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To accept Naturalism is to reject such entities as Cartesian minds, private visual and tactual spaces, angelic beings and God.
-- David Malet Armstrong
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Aggressive Christianity is the world's greatest need.
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I'm the world's expert on sterotypes held by academics about athletes and held by athletes about academics. To me, both of them are caricatures.
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Mathematics is not yet capable of coping with the naïveté of the mathematician himself.
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We know that nature is described by the best of all possible mathematics because God created it. So there is a chance that the best of all possible mathematics will be created out of physicists' attempts to describe nature.
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The definition of a good mathematical problem is the mathematics it generates rather than the problem itself.
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I'd like to take some calculus, too. I have absolutely no ability in that direction and not much interest, either, but there's something going on in mathematics that I don't understand, and I'd like to find out what it is.
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Don't be concerned with what you can't do. Work on what you can do - then count your blessings.
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One doesn't make art for other people, even though I am very concerned with the viewer
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The more guitars we have onstage the better, as I'm concerned.
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What I am really concerned about is what art is supposed to be - and can become.
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