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I hate relativism. I hate relativism more than I hate anything else, excepting, maybe, fiberglass powerboats... surely, surely, no one but a relativist would drive a fiberglass powerboat.

— Jerry Fodor Modularity of Mind (1983)

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Our best scientific theory about the mind is better than empiricism; but, in all sorts of ways, it’s still not very good.

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

Modularity of Mind (1983)

If there is a community of computers living in my head, there had also better be somebody who is in charge; and, by God, it had better be me.

Fodor (1998)

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