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It should be quite clear, then, that there are no criteria to be laid down in general for distinguishing the real from the not rea... - MORE It should be quite clear, then, that there are no criteria to be laid down in general for distinguishing the real from the not real.

J.L. Austin

reality | realism | dichotomies

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In this society, the norm of masculinity is phallic aggression. Male sexuality is, by definition, intensely and rigidly phallic. A... - MORE In this society, the norm of masculinity is phallic aggression. Male sexuality is, by definition, intensely and rigidly phallic. A man's identity is located in his conception of himself as the possessor of a phallus; a man's worth is located in his pride in phallic identity. The main characteristic of phallic identity is that worth is entirely contingent on the possession of a phallus. Since men have no other criteria for worth, no other notion of identity, those who do not have phalluses are not recognized as fully human.

Andrea Dworkin

men: masculinity

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The analogy between the mind and a computer fails for many reasons. The brain is constructed by principles that assure diversity a... - MORE The analogy between the mind and a computer fails for many reasons. The brain is constructed by principles that assure diversity and degeneracy. Unlike a computer, it has no replicative memory. It is historical and value driven. It forms categories by internal criteria and by constraints acting at many scales, not by means of a syntactically constructed program. The world with which the brain interacts is not unequivocally made up of classical categories.

Gerald M. Edelman

computers | mind, the

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In spite of the convenient textbook criteria that specialists set forth, the distinction between the madman and the jealous man is... - MORE In spite of the convenient textbook criteria that specialists set forth, the distinction between the madman and the jealous man is a difficult one. The madman, like the man in love, the jealous man, or the man prey to any overwhelming passion, is a "patient," that is, a passive agent in the grip of a force that seems to be outside himself. Madman and passionate man are both tossed in piteous agitation, immersed in delirium, or plunged into unwholesome reveries. Both derive the greatest harm from an inalterable incapacity to exert self-control. We know too little of the organic determinants of pathologic mental states, but I would wager that when these become clarified, the disturbance will be shown to be the same in paranoia and in the fits of jealousy. Where does jealousy end and paranoia begin?

F. Gonzalez-Crussi

jealousy | paranoia

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Recently, the Germans have developed a tendency to prefer the so-called first (youthful) style of great artists to their mature wo... - MORE Recently, the Germans have developed a tendency to prefer the so-called first (youthful) style of great artists to their mature works. Could it be that they do not realize that their aesthetic criteria, generally speaking, are juvenile?

Franz Grillparzer

art | artists | aesthetics | immaturity

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There are ... two minimum conditions necessary and sufficient for the existence of a legal system. On the one hand those rules of ... - MORE There are ... two minimum conditions necessary and sufficient for the existence of a legal system. On the one hand those rules of behavior which are valid according to the system's ultimate criteria of validity must be generally obeyed, and on the other hand, its rules of recognition specifying the criteria of legal validity and its rules of change and adjudication must be effectively accepted as common public standards of official behavior by its officials.

H.L.A. Hart

law

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We should have learnt by now that laws and court decisions can only point the way. They can establish criteria of right and wrong.... - MORE We should have learnt by now that laws and court decisions can only point the way. They can establish criteria of right and wrong. And they can provide a basis for rooting out the evils of bigotry and racism. But they cannot wipe away centuries of oppression and injustice—however much we might desire it.

Hubert H. Humphrey

laws and the law

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Psychoanalysis is unlike traditional medicine in that nature does not so readily supply us with a working definition of the psychi... - MORE Psychoanalysis is unlike traditional medicine in that nature does not so readily supply us with a working definition of the psychically "normal." Our definition of physical normality ("health") is not something we have strenuously to imagine or blindly to postulate, and there are obvious and sharp limits to possible disagreement; it is simply given to us because we are what we are. But psychoanalysis is in a more ambiguous position. Its definition of mental health has to be in good measure "thought up," and it must be done by men whose ideas are influenced by their lives and times. Psychoanalysis is always open to the accusation that its criteria of "neurosis" and "mental health" and "adjustment" have a cultural bias, and are influenced by political ideologies, national prejudices, and personal whims.

Irving Kristol

psychoanalysis | Christianity | Christians

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The Hacker Ethic: Access to computers—and anything which might teach you something about the way the world works—should be unl... - MORE The Hacker Ethic: Access to computers—and anything which might teach you something about the way the world works—should be unlimited and total.
Always yield to the Hands-On Imperative!
All information should be free.
Mistrust authority—promote decentralization.
Hackers should be judged by their hacking, not bogus criteria such as degrees, age, race, or position.
You can create art and beauty on a computer.
Computers can change your life for the better.

Steven Levy

hackers | computers

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where there are no criteria for misjudging (or to put it more accurately, where in the crucial cases the criteria for misjudging t... - MORE where there are no criteria for misjudging (or to put it more accurately, where in the crucial cases the criteria for misjudging turn out to be the same as the criteria for misnaming) then to say we are infallible is to pay ourselves an empty compliment.

Richard Rorty

epistemological infallibility | mind, the | private language argument

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