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What I do doesn't sit well in the world of hipsterville. I don't have a cool card, but I also don't have thin skin.

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Jerry Fodor

. . . there are special sciences not because of the nature of our epistemic relation to the world, but because of the way the world is put together: not all natural kinds (not all the classes of things and events about which there are important, counterfactual supporting generalizations to make) are, or correspond to, physical natural kinds.

Class, Correspond, Kinds, Knowledge, Mind, Nature
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. . . if it isn't literally true that my wanting is causally responsible for my reaching, and my itching is causally responsible for my scratching, and my believing is causally responsible for my saying. . . If none of that is literally true, then practically everything I believe about anything is false and it's the end of the world.

Believe, Everything, Knowledge, Mind, Responsible, World

I hate relativism. I hate relativism more than I hate anything else, excepting, maybe, fiberglass powerboats. . . surely, surely , no one but a relativist would drive a fiberglass powerboat.

Hate, I Hate, Powerboats, Relativism

I rather doubt that life has a meaning. If I thought perhaps it did, and I wanted to find out what its meaning is, I don't imagine I'd ask someone whose credentials consist of a PhD in philosophy.

Consist, Doubt, Life, Meaning, Phds, Philosophy

There are lots of cases where we know more about how the world works than we do about how we know how it works. That's no paradox. Understanding the structure of galaxies is one thing, understanding how we understand the structure of galaxies is quite another. There isn't the slightest reason why the first should wait on the second and, in point of historical fact, it didn't. This bears a lot of emphasis; it turns up in philosophy practically everywhere you look.

Emphasis, Knowledge, Philosophy, Structure, Understand, Waiting

If, in short, there is a community of computers living in my head, there had also better be somebody who is in charge; and, by God, it had better be me.

Community, Computer, God, Ifs, Living
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