Where Consciousness Is Concerned, The Appearance Is

"akrasia" [weakness Of Will] In Rational Beings Is As Common As Wine In France.

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.

We Do Not Live In Several Different, Or Even Two Different, Worlds, A Mental World And A Physical World, A Scientific World And A World Of Common Sense. Rather, There Is Just One World; It Is The World We All Live In, And We Need To Account For How We Exist As Part Of It.

Whatever Is Referred To Must Exist. Let Us Call This The Axiom Of Existence.

In The Performance Of An Illocutionary Act In The Literal Utterance Of A Sentence, The Speaker Intends To Produce A Certain Effect By Means Of Getting The Hearer To Recognize His Intention To Produce That Effect; And Furthermore, If He Is Using The Words Literally, He Intends This Recognition To Be Achieved In Virtue Of The Fact That The Rules For Using The Expressions He Utters Associate The Expression With The Production Of That Effect.