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Despite popular opinion, there are no important parallels between Madonna and Monroe, who was a virtuoso comedienne but who was in... - MORE Despite popular opinion, there are no important parallels between Madonna and Monroe, who was a virtuoso comedienne but who was insecure, depressive, passive-aggressive, and infuriatingly obstructionist in her career habits. Madonna is manic, perfectionist, workaholic. Monroe abused alcohol and drugs, while Madonna shuns them. Monroe had a tentative, melting, dreamy solipsism; Madonna has Judy Holliday's wisecracking smart mouth and Joan Crawford's steel will and bossy, circusmaster managerial competence.

Camille Paglia

Monroe, Marilyn | Madonna

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All public facts are to be individualized, all private facts are to be generalized. All public facts are to be individualized, all private facts are to be generalized.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

facts | individualism

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I take it that computational processes are both symbolic and formal. They are symbolic because they are defined over representatio... - MORE I take it that computational processes are both symbolic and formal. They are symbolic because they are defined over representations, and they are formal because they apply to representations, in virtue of (roughly) the syntax of the representations.

Jerry Alan Fodor

computational theory of mind | representational theory of mind

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... in doing our psychology, we want to attribute mental states fully opaquely because it's the fully opaque reading which tells u... - MORE ... in doing our psychology, we want to attribute mental states fully opaquely because it's the fully opaque reading which tells us what the agent has in mind, and it's what the agent has in mind that causes his behavior.

Jerry Alan Fodor

philosophy of psychology | referential opacity

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