John Searle Quotes on Knowledge
John Searle is an American philosopher long associated with the University of California, Berkeley, whose work has shaped the philosophy of language and the philosophy of mind. This page collects quotes attributed to John Searle on the topic of knowledge, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to John Searle:
“Syntax is not sufficient for semantics.”
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Attributed to John Searle:
“The Chinese Room shows that no formal program, by itself, is enough to constitute understanding.”
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“The problem posed by indirect speech acts is the problem of how it is possible for the speaker to say one thing and mean that but also to mean something else.”
Expression and Meaning , p. 31, Cambridge University Press (1979). -
“Expression and Meaning , p. 31, Cambridge University Press (1979).”
The problem posed by indirect speech acts is the problem of how it is possible for the speaker to say one thing and mean that but also to mean something else. -
“The Word Turned Upside Down", The New York Review of Books , Volume 30, Number 16, October 27, 1983.”
It is apparently very congenial for some people who are professionally concerned with fictional texts to be told that all texts are really fictional anyway, and that claims that fiction differs significantly from science and philosophy can be deconstructed as a logocentric prejudice, and it seems positively exhilarating to be told that what we call "reality" is just more textuality. Furthermore, t -
“A statement of the author’s “connection principle.”
The ascription of an unconscious intentional phenomenon to a system implies that the phenomenon is in principle accessible to consciousness. -
“Where conscious subjectivity is concerned, there is no distinction between the observation and the thing observed.”
The Rediscovery of the Mind , p. 97, MIT Press (1992) ISBN 0-262-69154-X .