4 Quotes & Sayings By John Rogers Searle

John Rogers Searle is a native of the United States. He was born in the city of New York, and grew up in San Francisco. Searle graduated from Stanford University in California in 1978 and received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1981 Read more

He is currently a professor in the Department of Psychology at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee.

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It seemed to a number of philosophers of language, myself included, that we should attempt to achieve a unification of Chomsky's syntax, with the results of the researches that were going on in semantics and pragmatics. I believe that this effort has proven to be a failure. Though Chomsky did indeed revolutionize the subject of linguistics, it is not at all clear, at the end the century, what the solid results of this revolution are. As far as I can tell there is not a single rule of syntax that all, or even most, competent linguists are prepared to agree is a rule. . John Rogers Searle
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Moods are not to be confused with emotions. Moods will dispose you to having an emotion. Certain moods you're more likely to get angry than others, as we all know, but emotion is not the same as mood. Emotions, I think, always have to do with agitated forms of desire. Whenever you're in an emotional state, you have some sort of agitated desire. So, emotions are fairly special -- I am not always in some sort of emotional state or other, but I think I am always in some mood or other. John Rogers Searle
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In general, I feel if you can't say it clearly you don't understand it yourself. John Rogers Searle