The data that can bear on the confirmation of perceptual hypotheses includes, in the general case, considerably less than the organism may know.

The data that can bear on the confirmation of perceptual hypotheses includes, in the general case, considerably less than the organism may know.

On my bad days, I sometimes wonder what philosophers are for.

The content of a thought depends on its external relations; on the way that the thought is related to the world, not on the way that it is related to other thoughts.

It simply isn't true, for example, that being big is in general better for fitness than being small except when there are effects of interacting variables; or that flying slow and high is in general better for fitness than flying fast and low except when there are effects of interacting variables; or that being monogamous is in general better for fitness than being polygamous... except when there are effects of interacting variables... It's not that the underlying generalizations are there but imperceptible in the ambient noise.

Who wins a... competition [between two traits] is massively context sensitive.

No doubt, intuitions deserve respect. ...[but] I think that it is always up for grabs what an intuition is an intuition of. At a minimum, it is surely sometimes up for grabs.