Our tools are extensions of our purposes, and so we find it natural to make metaphorical attributions of intentionality to them; but I take it no philosophical ice is cut by such examples.

Where conscious subjectivity is concerned, there is no distinction between the observation and the thing observed.

Where consciousness is concerned, the appearance is the reality.

Our tools are extensions of our purposes, and so we find it natural to make metaphorical attributions of intentionality to them; but I take it no philosophical ice is cut by such examples.

Berkeley had a liberal element in the student body who tended to be quite active. I think that's in general a feature of intellectually active places.

In many cases it is a matter for decision and not a simple matter of fact whether x understands y; and so on.

Whatever is referred to must exist. Let us call this the axiom of existence.