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Jerry Fodor

"Suppose that the organism is given the problem of determining the analysis of a stimulus at a certain level of representation- e.g., the problem of determining which sequence of words a given utterance encodes. Since, in the general case, transducer outputs underdetermine perceptual analyses, we can think of the solution of such problems as involving processes of nondemonstrative inference. In particular, we can think of each input system as a computational mechanism which projects and confirms a certain class of hyputheses on the basis of a certain body of data."

Source : "Wittgenstein, Mind, and Meaning". Book by Meredith Williams, 2002 edition.

Jerry Fodor

#Thinking Quotes #Data Quotes #Class Quotes

“No single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born. It would be a bit too easy if we could go about borrowing ready-made souls.”
“Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry”
“The Church now has been placed potentially in the control of the heavenly places once ruled by the prince of the power of the air. But this reconstituted church must engage and defeat the enemy and retake the heavenlies in the name of her Lord, so that the eyes of those still being held captive by Satan will be opened.”
“Young man, if I could remember the names of these particles, I would have been a botanist.”
“Weak thoughts, weak desires: he felt their force.”

Source : Maurice Blanchot (1992). “The Step Not Beyond”, p.3, SUNY Press
“Accents are very tangible, blessedly, and if you have to do one, it's a way of getting into character. I can read it through a few times and pretend I know what I'm doing!”
“the deeper one is drawn into God, the more one must 'go out of oneself'; that is, one must go to the world in order to carry the divine life into it.”

Source : Edith Stein (2016). “Self-Portrait In Letters, 1916-1942 (The Collected Works of Edith Stein, vol. 5)”, p.83, ICS Publications
“What does one have to do today to reconcile France? Distribute public money - that's what some expect, especially the radical left. They think that you help people by handing them money. But that is a fallacy because it is not me distributing the money, but rather future generations.”

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