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Donald Davidson
"Terminological infelicities have a way of breeding conceptual confusion."
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Source : Donald Davidson (2001). “Subjective, Intersubjective, Objective: Philosophical Essays”, p.154, Clarendon Press
Donald Davidson
#Confusion Quotes
#Way Quotes
#Breeding Quotes
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“There are three basic problems: how a mind can know the world of nature, how it is possible for one mind to know another, and how it is possible to know the contents of our own minds without resort to observation or evidence. It is a mistake, I shall urge, to suppose that these questions can be collapsed into two, or taken into isolation.”
Donald Davidson
Source : Donald Davidson (2001). “Subjective, Intersubjective, Objective: Philosophical Essays”, p.208, Clarendon Press
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“Nothing in the world, no object or event, would be true or false if there were not thinking creatures.”
Donald Davidson
Source : Donald Davidson (2009). “Truth and Predication”, p.7, Harvard University Press
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“Storytelling is not what I do for a living - it is how I do all that I do while I am living.”
Donald Davidson
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“With the possible exception of God during the writing of the Bible, every writer in history has needed an editor. So do you.”
Donald Davidson
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“Anyone who edits their own copy has a fool for an editor.”
Donald Davidson
