John Searle

utterance belief intentionality

"An utterance can have Intentionality, just as a belief has Intentionality, but whereas the Intentionality of the belief is intrinsic the Intentionality of the utterance is derived."

—John Searle

Berkeley student active intellectual place

"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."

—John Searle

programmed computer understand car

"I will argue that in the literal sense the programmed computer understands what the car and the adding machine understand, namely, exactly nothing."

—John Searle

tool extension purpose intention

"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."

—John Searle

refer exist axiom existence

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

—John Searle