Gilbert Ryle Quotes

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.
GILBERT RYLE

Ghost Mindset
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.
GILBERT RYLE

Ghost Mammal
To explode a myth is accordingly not to deny the facts but to re-allocate them.
GILBERT RYLE

Allocate Explode
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
GILBERT RYLE

Pavement
In searching for the self, one cannot simultaneously be the hunter and the hunted.
GILBERT RYLE

Hunter Self
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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Illumination Mindset See
Chronicles are not explanatory of what they record.
GILBERT RYLE

Chronicle Explain Record
Man need not be degraded to a machine by being denied to be a ghost in a machine.
GILBERT RYLE

Ghost
My today’s self perpetually slips out of any hold of it that I may try to take.
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Hold
Absolute solitude is on this showing the ineluctable destiny of the soul. Only our bodies can meet.
GILBERT RYLE

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