"The 'phenomenal concept' issue is rather different, I think. Here the question is whether there are concepts of experiences that are made available to subjects solely in virtue of their having had those experiences themselves. Is there a way of thinking about seeing something red, say, that you get from having had those experiences, and so isn't available to a blind person?"

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

David Papineau

#Thinking Quotes #Issues Quotes #Red Quotes

“When you are performing in theater, you feel so connected to your audience. Its exhilarating!”
“I agree that we should regard all books of the Bible as equally inspired - and important. But some come into sharp focus at certain times, as particularly relevant and sharp in what they have to say to our culture at any given moment of history. And Jeremiah is a book for our times.”

Source : Source: www.patheos.com
“I believe the process of going from confusion to understanding is a precious, even emotional, experience that can be the foundation of self-confidence.”
“Accommodation of mental structures to reality implies the existence of assimilatory schemata apart from which any structure would be impossible.”
“Saints are people who belong fully to God. They are not afraid of being mocked, misunderstood or marginalized.”
“Filmmaking is finding a piece of granite and you start to chip away and then you have the shape of a head, the shape of the arm, you can see the shape of the face and the face starts to gather character. You have to find it.”

Source : "Director Jason Reitman Talks YOUNG ADULT and His LACMA Live Reading Series". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. December 7, 2011.
“A powerful tool in the early stages of developing scenarios is toÂ pretend the interface isÂ magic.Â If your persona has goals and the product hasÂ magicalÂ powers to meet them, how simple could the interaction be? This kind of thinking is useful to help designers look outside the box.”

Source : Alan Cooper, Robert Reimann, David Cronin (2012). “About Face 3: The Essentials of Interaction Design”, p.121, John Wiley & Sons
“Long time no see. I only pray the caliber of your questions has improved.”

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