"It can be a necessary conceptual truth that pains are painful without this ruling out the physicalist thesis that immaterial minds are impossible or the thesis that conscious states supervene on physical states. The necessity involved in these claims is nomological necessity, not metaphysical necessity (assuming that these are different)."

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Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com

Elliott Sober

#Pain Quotes #Mind Quotes #Different Quotes

“One cannot hire a hand; the whole man always comes with it.”
“You do not have to be an economist to know that putting up the cost of employing someone is a pretty barking thing to do when you're trying to get out of a recession.”
“Having children has helped me become a better actor because they remind you to play make believe. It's the ease and naturalness of their beings. They just play and it's completely real for them at the time. As an actor, if we do it well, we make you believe.”
“Open-faced sandwiches take risks and live big and smile with all their teeth. These are the people I want to be around.”
“Mainstream feminism might remember that the war on women always starts with the war on whores.”
“The disparity between what people said life was and what I knew it to be unnerved me at times, but I swore that nothing would ever make me say life should be anything...”

Source : Harold Brodkey (2011). “Stories in an Almost Classical Mode”, p.287, Vintage
“If I get a chance to act, I will act. And then I'm usually the happiest person around.”

Source : "Anne Archer and Michelle Danner Come Together For A New Play". Interview with Jamie Painter Young, www.backstage.com. October 12, 2011.
“The result showed that fortune helps the brave.”

Source : Terence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Terence (Illustrated)”, p.266, Delphi Classics

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