Churches have given us great treasures such as music and architecture. Whether that pays for the harm they have done is another matter.
Daniel DennettThe theoretical fruits of deliberate oversimplification through idealization are not to be denied... Reality in all its messy particularity is too complicated to theorize about, taken straight. The issue is, rather (since every idealization is a strategic choice), which idealizations might really shed some light... which will just land us... diverting fairy tales.
Daniel DennettI'm the guy who reputedly denies that people experience colors or pains, and thinks that thermostats think โ just ask my critics.
Daniel DennettPhilosophers' Syndrome: mistaking a failure of the imagination for an insight into necessity.
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