"The data that can bear on the confirmation of perceptual hypotheses includes, in the general case, considerably less than the organism may know."

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Source : "Modularity of Mind". Book by Jerry Fodor, 1983.

Jerry Fodor

#Data Quotes #May Quotes #Bears Quotes

“I am very cautious of people who are absolutely right, especially when they are vehemently so.”

Source : Michael Palin (2010). “The Python Years: Diaries 1969-1979 Volume One”, p.92, Hachette UK
“It is wrong to use equal language for unequal actions.”
“The Japanese are great at inventing complex systems of rules, and not so great at explaining those rules to foreign visitors.”
“The poet and the painter are only truly great by the mutual influences of their studies, and the jealousy of glory has only produced an idle contest.”
“Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.”
“The world is so rife with narcissists that none of them take enough notice of me.”
“A traditionalist can sometimes be looked at as someone who is a fundamentalist, or they can be looked at as someone with a very strict set of understandings of human nature. But a traditionalist in the Vedic tradition, is one who is open-hearted, who does not judge, there's nothing to judge whatsoever, who understands the basic understanding and karma of all of it, and who basically helps when help is called for.”
“Beating the drums for Hawaii is not hard to do... the place just grows on you.”

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