"I'm not so sure that I am a reductionist in the strict type-identity sense. The issues here are messy. But I certainly a reductionist in the more general sense which is opposed to eliminativism and dualism."

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

David Papineau

#Issues Quotes #Identity Quotes #Type Quotes

“I guess it's going to have to hurt, I guess I'm going to have to cry, And let go of some things I've loved to get to the other side I guess it's going to break me down, Like fallin when you try to fly, Sad but sometimes moving on with the rest of your life starts with goodbye”
“Help does not mean to intervene. I will not meddle if I am not invited to do so. But if I can serve as a go-between with my experience, I will support the government's call for dialogue with the rebel forces who also have their problems, who also have their fears. I think all us Latin Americans have to help.”
“Itâ€™s our generation that is witnessing the end of Western predominance. The average American used to be more than 20 times richer than the average Chinese. Now itâ€™s just five times, and soon it will be 2.5 times.”
“We are all visionaries, and what we see is our soul in things.”
“A boxing contest is a brain-damage contest. Who can give out more brain damage and who can absorb more of it?”

Source : "A Talk With The Savage English Professor". Interview with Sam Harris, www.thedailybeast.com. March 5, 2015.
“If you will learn the seriousness of life, and its beauty also, live for your husband; make him happy.”
“Imagination allows us to conceive of delightful future possibilities, pick the most amazing one, and pull the present forward to meet it.”
“If there is one question I dread, to which I have never been able to invent a satisfactory reply, it is the question what am I doing.”

Source : Samuel Beckett (2007). “Molloy”, p.183, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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