Introduction
1 Language and philosophy
2 The analytic and the synthetic
3 Do true assertions correspond to reality?
4 Some issues in the theory of grammar
5 The 'innateness hypothesis' and
explanatory models in linguistics
6 How not to talk about meaning
7 Review of The concept of a person
8 Is semantics possible?
9 The refutation of conventionalism
10 Reply to Gerald Massey
11 Explanation and reference
12 The meaning of 'meaning'
13 Language and reality
14 Philosophy and our mental life
15 Dreaming and 'depth grammar'
16 Brains and behavior
17 Other minds
18 Minds and machines
19 Robots: machines or artificially created life?
20 The mental life of some machines
21 The nature of mental states
22 Logical positivism and the philosophy of mind
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The shade of the bar looks invariant in isolation but variant in context, in (favor of) sharp contrast with the color gradient background, hence an innateillusion we have to reasonably interpret and overcome as well as the mirage. Such variance appearing seasonably from context to context may not only be the case with our vision but worldview in general in practice indeed, whether a priori or a posteriori. Perhaps no worldview from nowhere, without any point of view or prejudice at all!
Ogden & Richards (1923) said, "All experience ... is either enjoyed or interpreted ... or both, and very little of it escapes some degree of interpretation."
H. G. Wells (1938) said, "The human individual is born now to live in a society for which his fundamental instincts are altogether inadequate."