Ever since Plato most philosophers have considered it part of their business to produce ‘proofs’ of immortality and the existence of God. They have found fault with the proofs of their predecessors — Saint Thomas rejected Saint Anselm's proofs,...
William James describes a man who got the experience from laughing-gas; whenever he was under its influence, he knew the secret of the universe, but when he came to, he had forgotten it. At last, with immense effort, he wrote down the secret before t...
The speech fascinated him. His ear caught the rhythm of it and he noted their idioms and worked some of them into his patter. He had found the reason behind the peculiar, drawling language of the old carny hands—it was a composite of all the sprawl...
The embodiment of mind leads us to a philosophy of embodied realism. Our concepts cannot be a direct reflection of external, objective, mind-independent reality because our sensorimotor system plays a crucial role in shaping them. On the other hand, ...
...[T]he whole undertaking of philosophical inquiry requires a prior understanding of the conceptual system in which the undertaking is set. That is an empirical job for cognitive science and cognitive semantics. ... Unless this job is done, we will ...
Aesthetic value emanates from the struggle between texts: in the reader, in language, in the classroom, in arguments within a society. Aesthetic value rises out of memory, and so (as Nietzsche saw) out of pain, the pain of surrendering easier pleasur...
Bound souls. He had always thought the stories of men and women bound throughout all eternity by the strength of passion, either love or hate, were but pleasant tales for long winter’s nights. Bound souls, two sides of the same counter, together th...
The Western genre is certainly something with which I'm familiar.
Revolution may not be pro-Western or democratic.
Western-style multi-party democracy is possible but not suitable for Africa.
Part of our western outlook stems from the scientific attitude and its method of isolating the parts of a phenomenon in order to analyze them.
Iraq is just a symbol of the attitude of western democracies to the rest of the world.
I love westerns. John Ford is one of the 10 best directors.
The love of freedom has been the quality of Western man.
The great western error about the Taliban is to assume homogeneity.
I'd really love to play a real-life country and western singer.
I'm from Texas, and I would love to do an old-fashioned gun-slinging Western.
I love westerns, I'd love to make more of them.
There are calm Korean players and not calm. There are calm Western players.
I mix Indian instruments with Western instruments all the time.
I tend to score with songs from Western pop music.
