John Jamieson Carswell Smart

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    When a person says, “I see a yellowish-orange after-image,” he is saying something like this: “There is something going on which is like what is going on when I have my eyes open, am awake, and there is an orange illuminated in good light in front of me, that is, when I really see an orange.”
    —John Jamieson Carswell Smart (b. 1920)

    It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.
    —Cardinal John Henry Newman (1801–1890)

    When a person says, “I see a yellowish-orange after-image,” he is saying something like this: “There is something going on which is like what is going on when I have my eyes open, am awake, and there is an orange illuminated in good light in front of me, that is, when I really see an orange.”
    —John Jamieson Carswell Smart (b. 1920)

    He who takes people for smart pays an expensive lesson.
    Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)