Carolina QuotesThoughts are strange things. they have 'representational' powers: a thought typically represents the world as being one way or another. A sensation, by contrast, seems to just sit there.
Simon Blackburn Connected to the Carolinas
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Chapter Two, Mind, p. 78
- work
- Think (1999)
- year
- 1999
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- p. 78
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