デネットの著作の中心的主張は、端的に言えば、内的精神状態の存在を否定するということである。の英語

The main point of Dennett's book, in short, is to deny the existence of inner mental states.

the nonrestrictive clause in `I always buy his books, which have influenced me greatly,' refers to his books generally and adds an additional fact about them

indicative of or marked by mental vacuity and an absence of ideas

In the first section of this review I raise the question of how brain processes cause our conscious experiences.

In this paper, I will use the word "humanization" so as to place importance on physical sensations of humans.

Those books which have made a lasting contribution to man's quest for truth, we call great books.

We must defer to his opinion, for he has more experience in this matter than any of us.

she may be detached or even unfeeling but at least she's not hypocritically effusive

Much of our daily living must consist of routine that requires little or no mental effort.

We say that we judge people based on their contents, but in the ends, don't we just judge the based on the part of them that we can see outside?

We say that we judge people based on their contents, but in the end, don't we just judge them based on their exterior?

in the theories of Jean Piaget: the modification of internal representations in order to accommodate a changing knowledge of reality

The thought crossed her mind that the first thing she should do was to see what he really meant.

Needs are what you must have. If you don't have them, you could die. Wants are things you really desire to have. However, you won't die if you don't have them.

a form of religious mysticism requiring withdrawal from all human effort and passive contemplation of God

All the same, we still need a scientific account of how exactly pains are caused by brain processes.

one of his cardinal convictions was that Britain was not run as a democracy but as an oligarchy

A periphrastic study in a worn-out poetical fashion,/ Leaving one still with the intolerable wrestle/ With words and meanings.-T.S.Eliot

radicals who support Trotsky's theory that socialism must be established throughout the world by continuing revolution

he writes extremely musical music, of which the sound is fastidiously calculated and yet agreeably spontaneous and imaginative

The trade of critic, in literature, music, and the drama, is the most degraded of all.

that part of the unconscious mind that acts as a conscience

a relatively rare dissociative disorder in which the usual integrity of the personality breaks down and two or more independent personalities emerge

the subjects' set led them to solve problems the familiar way and to overlook the simpler solution

What we are concerned with is ‘libido,' a subtle thing that lies concealed in the depths of our minds.

Though we cannot approve of his behavior, we can sympathize with the feelings which provoked it .

prove to be of unsound mind or demonstrate someone's incompetence

his Utopia is not a chimerical commonwealth but a practical improvement on what already exists- Douglas Bush

The secret of “skinship" is passing the warmth of the mother's body directly to the child, that's all.

Certain rights can never be granted to the government but must be kept in the hands of the people- Eleanor Roosevelt