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“Motion however will not help unless we have things moving.”

Simon Blackburn

Source: Think (1999), Chapter Seven, The World, p. 244

“Induction is the process of taking things within our experience to be representative of the world outside our experience. It is a process of projection or extrapolation.”

Simon Blackburn

Source: Think (1999), Chapter Six, Reasoning, p. 225

“Thoughts 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

Source: Think (1999), Chapter Two, Mind, p. 78

“According to Confucianism, the ideal life contains a large dose of respect for traditional ways. All these ideals can be fleshed out and painted in more or less attractive colours. Yet there is something uncomfortable about them, if only because there is little reason to suppose that there is any such thing as the ideal life. Since different people have different tastes and interests, and different cultures encourage different concerns, it seems unlikely that any 'ideal life' will be heavily contextualized: ideal for this person in these circumstances, perhaps, but not much more.”

Simon Blackburn

Source: Think (1999), Chapter Eight, What To Do, p. 278-279