“All that passes for knowledge can be arranged in a hierarchy of degrees of certainty, with arithmetic and the facts of perception at the top.” KnowsFactsScienceKnowledgeDegreesPerceptionCertaintyHierarchyArithmetic Book:Last Philosophical Testament: 1943-68 Source: Last Philosophical Testament: 1943-68
“It is perhaps wrong to say that the enemy of enlightenment is logic; rather, it is dualistic, verbal thinking. In fact, it is even more basic than that: it is perception.” ThinkingFactsEnemyPerceptionEnlightenmentLogic Author:Douglas Hofstadter
“Faculty Psychology is getting to be respectable again after centuries of hanging around with phrenologists and other dubious types. By faculty psychology I mean, roughly, the view that many fundamentally different kinds of psychological mechanisms must be postulated in order to explain the facts of mental life. Faculty psychology takes seriously the apparent heterogeneity of the mental and is impressed by such prima facie differences as between, say, sensation and perception, volition and cognition, learning and remembering, or language and thought.” KindMeanDifferentFactsRememberOrderLanguageDifferencesViewsPsychologyCenturyTypePerceptionPsychologicalFacultySensationsMechanismDifferent KindsImpressedRespectableCognitionDubiousHanging AroundVolition Author:Jerry Fodor
“Minds fettered by this doctrine no longer inquire concerning a proposition whether it is attested by sufficient evidence, but whether it accords with Scripture; they do not search for facts as such, but for facts that will bear out their doctrine. It is easy to see that this mental habit blunts not only the perception of truth, but the sense of truthfulness, and that the man whose faith drives him into fallacies treads close upon the precipice of falsehood.” MenMindFactsEasyAtheismHe ManBearsHabitPerceptionEvidenceScriptureDoctrineSufficientFalsehoodPropositionsAccordTruthfulnessFallacyPrecipice Book:The Essays of George Eliot: Top Novelist Focus Source: The Essays of George Eliot: Top Novelist Focus