Overt intelligent performances are not clues to the workings of minds; they are those workings. Boswell described Johnson's mind w...hen he described how he wrote, talked, ate, fidgeted and fumed. His description was, of course, incomplete, since there were notoriously some thoughts which Johnson kept carefully to himself and there must have been many dreams, daydreams and silent babblings which only Johnson could have recorded and only a James Joyce would wish him to have recorded.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We have defined envy as a feeling of pain that a person experiences when he sees someone else possesses something which he does no...t. Jealousy arises when a person possesses something of great value and significance to himself and fears that someone else will deprive him of it. Threats to self-esteem are usually involved in both envy and jealousy, but the situations that provoke them are different and the jealous person will probably be more ready to take overt action to protect what he believes is rightfully his. Overt crimes of passion motivated by jealousy are frequent, whereas crimes of envy tend to be secretive. In general it is shameful to be envious but more acceptable to be jealous in protecting what one rightfully possesses.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As one young starlet asked, with annoyance and pretension, "What has Marilyn got? And how can I get it?" A large part of the answe...r lies in Miss Monroe's attitude toward herself. Along with her very evident feminine charms goes a genuine delight in being sexually attractive--an attitude that makes attractiveness seem as natural as sunlight. No amount of connections and calculated exploitation of beauty could achieve the same effect. Miss Kelly is a symbol in a very different way. The heroines she plays take the sexual initiative in a remarkably overt way, but always as perfectly proper young ladies. It is as if a not-nice girl, when in love, would behave otherwise and no well-bred wife would act otherwise toward her husband. Female interest in physical love becomes respectable and proper, as if no one had ever thought it vulgar and immodest in a good woman. The nice girl as coquette or flirt is archaic and coy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
[T]he categories of intentionality are nothing more nor less than the metalinguistic categories in terms of which we talk epistemi...cally about overt speech as they appear in the framework of thoughts construed on the model of over speech.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My general thesis, then, is that concepts and categories pertaining to mental acts can be construed as analogical extensions of Ry...lean concepts and categories pertaining to candid overt speech.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »