Zeno Vendler Quotes

• Esse est percipi, to be is to be perceived, said good old Berkeley; but, according to most philosophers, he was wrong. Yet, obviously, there are things for which the adage holds. Perception, trivially, to begin with. If elements of conscious awareness--pains, tickles, feelings of heat and cold, sensory qualia of colors, sounds, and the like--have any existence, it must consist in their being perceived by a subject.... This shows, of course, that such experiences are epiphenomenal, at least with respect to the physical world.

  Zeno Vendler

  Pain, Color, Feelings

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• Experience and imagination must enter into the very constitution of our thoughts involving concrete individuals.

  Zeno Vendler

  Thinking, Thoughtful, Imagination

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• the full analysis of the notions of saying something and understanding what one said inevitably involves a concept which, as I will show in detail, essentially corresponds to the Cartesian idea of thought.

  Zeno Vendler

  Thinking, Thoughtful, Ideas

  Zeno Vendler (1972). “Res Cogitans: An Essay in Rational Psychology”, Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press

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• To be in the mind and to be known are the same thing: in this domain esse est percipi.

  Zeno Vendler

  Mind, Domain, Intellect

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