"I do have quite a lot of sympathy for Fodor's picture of concepts as information-free atomic entities which get locked onto their referents causally, and to that extent they needn't involve anything much in the way of learning. But even so it seems perverse to call them 'innate'. Here we see again the oddity of treating 'not learned' as sufficient for innate."

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Source : "Physical". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. April 8, 2013.

David Papineau

#Oddities Quotes #Information Quotes #Way Quotes

“Napoleon, who had an aversion to the moral laxity of the eighteenth century, which he blamed on the domination of society by women, was determined to reform family life on Roman, or perhaps rather on Corsican, principles. It was with him, not with Queen Victoria, that Victorian morality originated.”

Source : J. Christopher Herold (1983). “The Horizon book of the age of Napoleon”, Harmony
“I've read horoscopes before and what they say. But I would actually love to not be what somebody writes down - I don't want to be described. I don't want you to be able to read something and say, "This is how Wayne is." I'd rather you meet me and decide. I'd rather be different, basically.”
“The for-profit education industry has proven equal to the task.”

Source : "Steve Eisman’s Next Big Short: For-Profit Colleges" by Andy Kroll, www.motherjones.com. May 27, 2010.
“I don't suppose that hard work, discipline, and a perfectionist attitude toward my work did me any harm. They are a big part of my makeup today, as any of my co-workers will tell you. And when life seemed unbearable, I learned to live in my imagination, and to step inside other people's skins- indispensable abilities for an actress.”
“You flip through it and say, 'I'd like to have that product and I'd like to have a person like that. It is You placing your order with the Universe. It's really that easy.”
“Even before I started writing songs, that was one of my goals to be a writer, and I still have that goal. I've just gotten sidetracked.”
“There's real potency in metal. Metal fans love metal as if it's a nation they would fight for. It's not diluted by pop culture.”
“It is only by walking in the digital footsteps of your customer that you can uncover a new landscape of opportunities for engagement as well as a new reality for your business.”

Source : Brian Solis (2013). “What's the Future of Business?: Changing the Way Businesses Create Experiences”, p.100, John Wiley & Sons

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