So too Plato was, in my view, a very unreliable Platonist. He was too much of a philosopher to think that anything he had said was the last word.
GILBERT RYLEAbsolute solitude is on this showing the ineluctable destiny of the soul. Only our bodies can meet.
More Gilbert Ryle Quotes
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Man need not be degraded to a machine by being denied to be a ghost in a machine.
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My today’s self perpetually slips out of any hold of it that I may try to take.
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The dogma of the Ghost in the machine.
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In searching for the self, one cannot simultaneously be the hunter and the hunted.
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Dreamers of dreams may be pathfinders; but they may be mere vagrants. Of those who depart from the pavements, only a few are explorers: the rest are mere jaywalkers
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To see is one thing; to picture or visualise is another. A person can see things, only when his eyes are open, and when his surroundings are illuminated; but he can have pictures in his mind’s eye, when his eyes are shut and when the world is dark.
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The dogma of the Ghost in the Machine, maintains that there exist both bodies and minds; that there occur physical processes and mental processes; that there are mechanical causes of corporeal movements and mental causes of corporeal movements.
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Man need not be degraded to a machine by being denied to be a ghost in a machine. He might, after all, be a sort of animal, namely, a higher mammal. There has yet to be ventured the hazardous leap to the hypothesis that perhaps he is a man.
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Absolute solitude is on this showing the ineluctable destiny of the soul. Only our bodies can meet.
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To explode a myth is accordingly not to deny the facts but to re-allocate them.
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Myths often do a lot of theoretical good, while they are still new.
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Philosophy is the replacement of category-habits by category-disciplines.
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A myth is, of course, not a fairy story. It is the presentation of facts belonging to one category in the idioms appropriate to another. To explode a myth is accordingly not to deny the facts but to re-allocate them.
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Chronicles are not explanatory of what they record.
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