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p.32-33 Geertz... writes that:
mind is a term denoting a class of skills, propensities, capacities, tendencies, habits; it refers in Dewey's phrase... to an "active and eager background which lies in wait and engages whatever comes its way." And, as such, it is neither an action nor a thing, but an organized system of dispositions which finds its manifestation in some actions and some things (1962: 716).
p.45 "As soon as we are confident that we really have knowledge and understanding in some domain," Searle says, "we stop calling it 'philosophy' and start calling it 'science'" (1998: 158).
p.45-46 At different moments in our daily lives, all of us operate sometimes as scientists and sometimes as philosophers. We operate as scientists when we wish to explain a phenomenon... We are philosophers when we reflect on the phenomenon and wish to preserve a certain belief.
p.46-47 Scientific theories change when new evidence concerning a phenomenon or related phenomena turns up that requires an adjusted explanation of the original phenomenon. Philosophical theories change when the beliefs that generate them have consequences that, for whatever reason, the holder of the philosophical theory no longer finds desirable. A person will hold to a belief in objective reality if the consequence of abandoning it is undesirable, e.g., it would require the abandonment of a lot of other beliefs this person holds dear. This person will abandon her belief in an objective reality if the consequence of doing so is desirable.
p.47 An explanation, according to Maturana, "is an answer to a question that proposes a reformulation of the experience which the question demands to be explained, as an answer (explanatory answer)."
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