Zeno Vendler quotes
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“Esse est percipi, to be is to be perceived, said good old Berkeley; but, according to most philosophers, he was wrong. Yet, obviously, there are things for which the adage holds. Perception, trivially, to begin with. If elements of conscious awareness--pains, tickles, feelings of heat and cold, sensory qualia of colors, sounds, and the like--have any existence, it must consist in their being perceived by a subject.... This shows, of course, that such experiences are epiphenomenal, at least with respect to the physical world.”
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“Experience and imagination must enter into the very constitution of our thoughts involving concrete individuals.”
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“the full analysis of the notions of saying something and understanding what one said inevitably involves a concept which, as I will show in detail, essentially corresponds to the Cartesian idea of thought.”
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“To be in the mind and to be known are the same thing: in this domain esse est percipi.”
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Source : 'Verses Written on a Window in Scotland'
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Source : Abraham Cowley, Thomas Sprat (1707). “The Works of Mr. Abraham Cowley ...: Consisting of Those which Were Formerly Printed; and Those which He Design'd for the Press, Publish'd Out of the Author's Original Copies. With The Cutter of Coleman-street”, p.55
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Source : Ada Leverson (1962). “The little Ottleys: Love's shadow. Tenterhooks. Love at second sight”
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Source : A. S. A. Harrison (2013). “The Silent Wife: A Novel”, p.17, Penguin
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“The pressure I put on myself is the only pressure I'm feeling once I get into the game.”
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