“Turn your churches into halls of science, and devote your leisure day to the study of your own bodies, the analysis of your own minds, and the examination of the fair material world which extends around you!” WorldMindBodyTurnsChurchStudyMaterialsFairsAnalysisHallsLeisureExaminationMaterial World Book:Course of popular lectures; with 3 addresses on various public occasions, and a reply to the charges against the French reformers of 1789 Source: Course of popular lectures; with 3 addresses on various public occasions, and a reply to the charges against the French reformers of 1789
“Suppose that the organism is given the problem of determining the analysis of a stimulus at a certain level of representation - e.g., the problem of determining which sequence of words a given utterance encodes. Since, in the general case, transducer outputs underdetermine perceptual analyses, we can think of the solution of such problems as involving processes of nondemonstrative inference. In particular, we can think of each input system as a computational mechanism which projects and confirms a certain class of hyputheses on the basis of a certain body of data.” ThinkingProblemBodyCertainGivenProcessLevelsClassCasesParticularProjectsSolutionsBasesDataAnalysisMechanismRepresentationOrganismsSequenceStimulusInvolvingInputUtteranceOutputInference Author:Jerry Fodor
“All analyses end badly. Each 'termination' leaves the participants with the taste of ashes in their mouths; each is absurd; each is a small, pointless death. Psychoanalysis cannot tolerate happy endings; it casts them off the way the body's immunological system casts off transplanted organs.” WayEndsBodyTasteMouthsCastsAbsurdAnalysisOrgansTolerateAshesPsychiatryHappy EndingsPointlessPsychoanalysisParticipantsTermination Author:Janet Malcolm