There is no success or failure in Nature.

In the performance of an illocutionary act in the literal utterance of a sentence, the speaker intends to produce a certain effect by means of getting the hearer to recognize his intention to produce that effect; and furthermore, if he is using the words literally, he intends this recognition to be achieved in virtue of the fact that the rules for using the expressions he utters associate the expression with the production of that effect.

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.

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

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.

Dualism makes the problem insoluble; materialism denies the existence of any phenomenon to study, and hence of any problem.

The Intentionality of the mind not only creates the possibility of meaning, but limits its forms.