John Rogers Searle è un filosofo statunitense.
“Non puoi pensare con chiarezza, se non riesci a parlare e scrivere in modo chiaro.”
You cannot think clearly if you cannot speak and write clearly.
The Storm Over the University
Origine: "Where questions of style and exposition are concerned I try to follow a simple maxim: if you can't say it clearly you don't understand it yourself." (da Intentionality: An Essay in the Philosophy of Mind, Cambridge University Press, 1983, p. X)
“Non capisci quella tradizione, se non la vedi in relazione alle altre.”
However, you do not understand your own tradition if you do not see it in relation to others.
The Storm Over the University
Origine: Da Mente, coscienza, cervello: un problema ontologico, in Eddy Carli (a cura di), Cervelli che parlano, Bruno Mondadori, 2003, pp. 185-186.
Origine: Intentionality: An Essay in the Philosophy of Mind (1983), P. 27.
The Storm Over the University (December 6, 1990)
“My car and my adding machine understand nothing: they are not in that line of business.”
Minds, Brains and Programs (1980)
“You need to know enough of the natural sciences so that you are not a stranger in the world.”
The Storm Over the University (December 6, 1990)
"Our shared condition — consciousness" (May, 2013)
Origine: Speech Acts: An Essay in the Philosophy of Language (1969), P. 141.
