"272","The Message is: There is no Medium","Sydney Shoemaker notes that my \"avoidance of the standard philosophical terminology for discussing such matters\" often creates problems for me; philosophers have a hard time figuring out what I am saying and what I am denying. My refusal to play ball with my colleagues is deliberate, of course, since I view the standard philosophical terminology as worse than useless--a major obstacle to progress since it consists of so many errors trapped in the seductively lucid amber of tradition: \"obvious truths\" that are simply false, broken-backed distinctions, and other cognitive illusions. I want to shift the perspective of philosophy of mind, and for that task using the standard terminology would be counterproductive. Fortunately, the inevitable communication-difficulties my policy provokes are forced into the open by occasions such as this constructive confrontation, permitting me to clarify my shocking message. I am grateful to Shoemaker, and to Michael Tye, Frank Jackson and David Rosenthal, for their vigorous and sympathetic reactions to my book.","http://cogprints.org/272/","Dennett, Daniel C","UNSPECIFIED","       <span class=\"person_name\">Dennett, Daniel C</span>     (1993)  <a href=\"http://cogprints.org/272/\"><em>The Message is: There is no Medium.</em></a>       [Journal (Paginated)]           ","","1993"