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If you want the truth rather than merely something to say, you will have a good deal less to say.


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Everyone is entitled to commit murder in the imagination once in a while, not to mention lesser infractions.



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Perhaps the belief in God is the belief that the universe is intelligible, but not to us.



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fundamentally an organism has conscious mental states if and only if there is something that it is like to be that organism--something it is like for the organism.





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