"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 (1932-2025)
"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 (1932-2025)
"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 (1932-2025)
"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 (1932-2025)
"Whatever is referred to must exist. Let us call this the axiom of existence."
—John Searle (1932-2025)
"You do not understand your own tradition if you do not see it in relation to others."
—John Searle (1932-2025)
“One of the many marks of a philosophical sensibility is an obsession with problems which most sane people regard as not worth bothering about.”
—John Searle (1932-2025)
“The best objects to think with are words, because that is part of what words are for. Indeed, it is a condition for something to be a word that it be thinkable.”
—John Searle (1932-2025)