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“It does bear emphasis that slippery-slope arguments are notoriously invalid.” PhilosophyArgumentLogicPhilosophy QuotesFallacy Author:Jerry A. Fodor
“People think they want to know. Actually, if you ask—-how much would you pay to know, the answer is not much. . . . Do you care how your refrigerator works? No, as long as there’s a repairman around when it breaks down. Nobody really cares.” Desire For Knowledge Author:Jerry A. Fodor
“As Uncle Hegel used to enjoy pointing out, the trouble with perspectives is that they are, by definition, PARTIAL points of view; the Real problems are appreciated only when, in the course of the development of the World Spirit, the limits of perspective come to be transcended. Or, to put it less technically, it helps to be able to see the whole elephant.” Hegelian Dialectic Book:Psychosemantics: The Problem of Meaning in the Philosophy of Mind Source: Psychosemantics: The Problem of Meaning in the Philosophy of Mind