Mental States

Famous quotes containing the words mental states, mental and/or states:

“... in doing our psychology, we want to attribute mental states fully opaquely because it’s the fully opaque reading which tells us what the agent has in mind, and it’s what the agent has in mind that causes his behavior.”
—Jerry Alan Fodor (b. 1935)

“‘Don’t be afraid of me because I’m just coming back home from
the mental hospital—I’m your mother—’”
—Allen Ginsberg (b. 1926)

“I would like to be the first ambassador to the United States from the United States.”
—Barbara Mikulski (b. 1936)