The ascription of an unconscious intentional phenomenon to a system implies that the phenomenon is in principle accessible to cons...ciousness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The problem posed by indirect speech acts is the problem of how it is possible for the speaker to say one thing and mean that but ...also to mean something else.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Where questions of style and exposition are concerned I try to follow a simple maxim: if you can't say it clearly you don't unders...tand it yourself.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It seems to me obvious that infants and many animals that do not in any ordinary sense have a language or perform speech acts none...theless have Intentional states. Only someone in the grip of a philosophical theory would deny that small babies can literally be said to want milk and that dogs want to be let out or believe that their master is at the door.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is probably no more abused a term in the history of philosophy than "representation," and my use of this term differs both f...rom its use in traditional philosophy and from its use in contemporary cognitive psychology and artificial intelligence.... The sense of "representation" in question is meant to be entirely exhausted by the analogy with speech acts: the sense of "represent" in which a belief represents its conditions of satisfaction is the same sense in which a statement represents its conditions of satisfaction. To say that a belief is a representation is simply to say that it has a propositional content and a psychological mode.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
An utterance can have Intentionality, just as a belief has Intentionality, but whereas the Intentionality of the belief is intrins...ic the Intentionality of the utterance is derived.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
One can imagine a computer simulation of the action of peptides in the hypothalamus that is accurate down to the last synapse. But... equally one can imagine a computer simulation of the oxidation of hydrocarbons in a car engine or the action of digestive processes in a stomach when it is digesting pizza. And the simulation is no more the real thing in the case of the brain than it is in the case of the car or the stomach. Barring miracles, you could not run your car by doing a computer simulation of the oxidation of gasoline, and you could not digest pizza by running the program that simulates such digestion. It seems obvious that a simulation of cognition will similarly not produce the effects of the neurobiology of cognition.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The general nature of the speech act fallacy can be stated as follows, using "good" as our example. Calling something good is char...acteristically praising or commending or recommending it, etc. But it is a fallacy to infer from this that the meaning of "good" is explained by saying it is used to perform the act of commendation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The assertion fallacy ... is the fallacy of confusing the conditions for the performance of the speech act of assertion with the a...nalysis of the meaning of particular words occurring in certain assertions.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »