On Tue, 22 Dec 2009 16:31:54 -0800 (PST) Chris Doss
<lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com> writes:
> Well Ryle is kind of obviously wrong, since my mind is not simply how
> I act. :) I could sit in the corner and not do anything, and I would
> still have a mind.
Ryle, as I recall, included potentialities for action and behavior too. But if you are just sitting in a corner, you still are doing something.
Jim F.
>
> (Jesus, Ryle! I haven't thought of him in over 10 years.)
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> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Jim Farmelant <farmelantj at juno.com>
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> I was thinking more along the lines of Gilbert Ryle's
> notion that it is a mistake to think of mind
> as a substance or a thing. It's rather a
> way of acting. Ryle denied that
> his a position was a form of behaviorism
> (as Wittgenstein did too) but it
> sure looks like a species of behaviorism
> to me.
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