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I am going to take one day a month to visit non-technology companies to learn and get inspiration from other industries and organizations.

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Jerry Fodor

No doubt, intuitions deserve respect. . . . [but] I think that it is always up for grabs what an intuition is an intuition of. At a minimum, it is surely sometimes up for grabs.

Philosophical, Thinking, Doubt, Minimum, Grabs
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. . . if it isn't literally true that my wanting is causally responsible for my reaching, and my itching is causally responsible for my scratching, and my believing is causally responsible for my saying. . . If none of that is literally true, then practically everything I believe about anything is false and it's the end of the world.

Believe, Everything, Knowledge, Mind, Responsible, World

I hate relativism. I hate relativism more than I hate anything else, excepting, maybe, fiberglass powerboats. . . surely, surely , no one but a relativist would drive a fiberglass powerboat.

Hate, I Hate, Powerboats, Relativism

I rather doubt that life has a meaning. If I thought perhaps it did, and I wanted to find out what its meaning is, I don't imagine I'd ask someone whose credentials consist of a PhD in philosophy.

Consist, Doubt, Life, Meaning, Phds, Philosophy

There are lots of cases where we know more about how the world works than we do about how we know how it works. That's no paradox. Understanding the structure of galaxies is one thing, understanding how we understand the structure of galaxies is quite another. There isn't the slightest reason why the first should wait on the second and, in point of historical fact, it didn't. This bears a lot of emphasis; it turns up in philosophy practically everywhere you look.

Emphasis, Knowledge, Philosophy, Structure, Understand, Waiting

If, in short, there is a community of computers living in my head, there had also better be somebody who is in charge; and, by God, it had better be me.

Community, Computer, God, Ifs, Living
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