Logo
Quote by John Searle
We often attribute understanding and other cognitive predicates by

We often attribute understanding and other cognitive predicates by metaphor and analogy to cars, adding machines, and other artifacts, but nothing is proved by such attributions. – John Searle

Other quotes by John Searle

My car and my adding machine understand nothing: they are not in that line of business. – John Searle

Category:
car
Author
John Searle
Read Quote

I will argue that in the literal sense the programmed computer understands what the car and the adding machine understand, namely, exactly nothing. – John Searle

Category:
car
Author
John Searle
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
car
category

In the car and in front of the camera I tend to be very calm but behind the scenes I can get fired up and passionate, I just dont see the need to shout my mouth off in public. – Jenson Button

Category:
car

My very best friend died in a car accident when I was 16 years old. That was the hardest blow emotionally that I have ever had to endure. Suddenly, you realize tomorrow might not come. Now I live by the motto, Today is what I have. – Amber Heard

Category:
car

I dont want to rap about my car. How generic is that? Be creative. – Andy Milonakis

Category:
car

When youre in the car, how well you do is down to you and you alone-no band, no management, no marketing. – Nick Mason

Category:
car

Random Quotes

Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something. – Henry David Thoreau

Category:
Martin Luther King Day

There is a lot of hype and fear about this much-talked-about prospect of designer babies. – Leon Kass

Category:
Fear

…have the same Use with Burning-Glasses, to collect the diffus’d Rays of Wit and Learning in Authors, and make them point with Warmth and Quickness upon the Reader’s Imagination. – Jonathan Swift, “A Letter of Advice to a Young Poet: Together With a Proposal fo

Category:
Quotations

I like to think my dad was easygoing and kind, and I think some of those things have been passed down. I am like him in a sense of being positive and hopeful. He was compassionate, and Ive got a lot of that in me as well. – Joel Osteen

Category:
dad