Gilbert Ryle Quotes
Gilbert Ryle was a British analytic philosopher and one of the architects of post-war Oxford ordinary-language philosophy. As Waynflete Professor of Metaphysical Philosophy and editor of Mind, he shaped a generation of British thought. The quotes below are attributed to Gilbert Ryle, organized by topic.
Gilbert Ryle on Knowledge
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Attributed to Gilbert Ryle:
“Knowing how is not reducible to knowing that.”
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Attributed to Gilbert Ryle:
“We can know how to play chess without knowing the propositional rules.”
Gilbert Ryle on Mind
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Attributed to Gilbert Ryle:
“The dogma of the ghost in the machine.”
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Attributed to Gilbert Ryle:
“It is not a contingent fact about thinking that it is bound up with language.”
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Attributed to Gilbert Ryle:
“The official doctrine, which hails chiefly from Descartes, is something like this: with the doubtful exceptions of idiots and infants in arms, every human being has both a body and a mind.”