Gilbert Ryle Quotes on Mind
Gilbert Ryle was a British analytic philosopher and one of the architects of post-war Oxford ordinary-language philosophy. This page collects quotes attributed to Gilbert Ryle on the topic of mind, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Gilbert Ryle:
“The dogma of the ghost in the machine.”
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Attributed to Gilbert Ryle:
“Knowing how is not reducible to knowing that.”
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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:
“We can know how to play chess without knowing the propositional rules.”
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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.”