Your Intrepid Explorer Returns at 2:00am From the Trials of Philosophy Scholarship, Once More Bearing Nuggets of Dubious Humour
“In order to contrast functional pluralism with Jackson’s approach, it will be helpful to have a toy example. I’ll use the concept cool, as employed by speakers of English dialect (foreign, I suspect, to most of my readers) called ‘Street Cred’.” [Price, H. (1997). “Naturalism and the Fate of the M-Worlds”, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Supp. Vol. LXXI., 1997, pp. 247-267.]
(Need I mention that the next 3 pages are dedicated to a dissection of contesting philosophical accounts of the meaning of the word cool?)
“One of the damn things is enough.” [Rebecca West on the philosophy of mind as mirror of nature; quoted in Robert B. Brandom, Making It Explicit, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1994, p. 74.]