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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.

— Jerry Fodor

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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)

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.

Modularity of Mind (1983)

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