Quotes by Gilbert Ryle

Gilbert Ryle

… my today’s self perpetually slips out of any hold of it that I may try to take.

May

Self

Trying

A myth is, of course, not a fairy story. It is the presentation of facts belonging to one category in the idioms appropriate to another. To explode a myth is accordingly not to deny the facts but to re-allocate them.

Facts

Fairy Stories

Science

Absolute solitude is on this showing the ineluctable destiny of the soul. Only our bodies can meet.

Destiny

Solitude

Soul

Chronicles are not explanatory of what they record.

Chronicles

Records

Contemporary philosophers have exercised themselves with the problem of our knowledge of other minds. Enmeshed in the dogma of the ghost in the machine, they have found it impossible to discover any logically satisfactory evidence warranting one person in believing that there exist minds other than his own. I can witness what your body does, but I cannot witness what your mind does, and my pretensions to infer from what your body does to what your mind does all collapse, since the premises for such inferences are either inadequate or unknowable.

Believe

Doe

Mind

Dreamers of dreams may be pathfinders; but they may be mere vagrants. Of those who depart from the pavements, only a few are explorers: the rest are mere jaywalkers

Dream

May

Pavement

In searching for the self, one cannot simultaneously be the hunter and the hunted.

Hunted

Hunters

Self

It is of first-rate importance to notice from the start that stupidity is not the same thing, or the same sort of thing, as ignorance. There is no incompatibility between being well-informed and being silly, and a person who has a good nose for arguments or jokes may have a bad head for facts.

Ignorance

Silly

Stupidity

Man need not be degraded to a machine by being denied to be a ghost in a machine.

Aggravation

Men

Needs

Man need not be degraded to a machine by being denied to be a ghost in a machine. He might, after all, be a sort of animal, namely, a higher mammal. There has yet to be ventured the hazardous leap to the hypothesis that perhaps he is a man.

Animal

Mammals

Men

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Believe

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Deny

Destiny

Differences

Discipline

Doe

Dogma

Dream

Eye

Facts

Fairy Stories

Firsts

Ghost

Hands

Home

Hunted

Hunters

Ignorance

Light

Lying

Machines

Mammals

May

Men

Mind

Myth

Needs

Pavement

People

Philosophy

Plato

Play

Records

Replacements

Science

Self

Silly

Solitude

Soul

Stills

Stupidity

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Quotes by Gilbert Ryle

Gilbert Ryle

… my today’s self perpetually slips out of any hold of it that I may try to take.

A myth is, of course, not a fairy story. It is the presentation of facts belonging to one category in the idioms appropriate to another. To explode a myth is accordingly not to deny the facts but to re-allocate them.

Absolute solitude is on this showing the ineluctable destiny of the soul. Only our bodies can meet.

Chronicles are not explanatory of what they record.

Dreamers of dreams may be pathfinders; but they may be mere vagrants. Of those who depart from the pavements, only a few are explorers: the rest are mere jaywalkers

In searching for the self, one cannot simultaneously be the hunter and the hunted.

It is of first-rate importance to notice from the start that stupidity is not the same thing, or the same sort of thing, as ignorance. There is no incompatibility between being well-informed and being silly, and a person who has a good nose for arguments or jokes may have a bad head for facts.

Man need not be degraded to a machine by being denied to be a ghost in a machine.

Man need not be degraded to a machine by being denied to be a ghost in a machine. He might, after all, be a sort of animal, namely, a higher mammal. There has yet to be ventured the hazardous leap to the hypothesis that perhaps he is a man.

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