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"akrasia" [weakness Of Will] In Rational Beings Is As Common As Wine In France.

Many People Mistakenly Suppose That The Essence Of Consciousness Is That Of A Control Mechanism

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.

Where Consciousness Is Concerned, The Appearance Is The Reality.

If You Can't Say It Clearly, You Don't Understand It Yourself