Davidson

Famous quotes containing the word davidson:

“If we cannot find a way to interpret the utterances and other behavior of a creature as revealing a set of beliefs largely consistent and true by our standards, we have no reason to count that creature as rational, as having beliefs, or as saying anything.”
—Donald Davidson (b. 1917)

“Mental events such as perceivings, rememberings, decisions, and actions resist capture in the net of physical theory.”
—Donald Davidson (b. 1917)

“Night sank: like flakes of silver fire
The stars in one great shower came down;”
—John Davidson (1857–1909)