Where consciousness is concerned, the appearance is the reality.

My car and my adding machine understand nothing: they are not in that line of business

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

I want to block some common misunderstandings about "understanding": In many of these discussions one finds a lot of fancy footwork about the word "understanding."

Where consciousness is concerned, the appearance is the reality.

The problem posed by indirect speech acts is the problem of how it is possible for the speaker to say one thing and mean that but also to mean something else.

"Akrasia" [weakness of will] in rational beings is as common as wine in France.