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Iclearwater Posted 8 years ago
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So long the football of Victorian philosophers

WE may well agree with Harvey A. Carr that "Consciousness is an abstraction that has no more independent existence than the grin of a Cheshire cat." "Consciousness" and "thought"—so long the football of Victorian philosophers—are the functioning of physical structures, and accompany material processes in the brain. Thinking is a physiological event, and the laws of mind are laws of matter. They can -be nothing else, even if we do not know them. ---by Salter

Hello,

1. What does "so long the football of Victorian philosophers" mean? So long = goodbye?

2. I learnt an idiom "as grin as a Cheshire cat", but don't understand the meaning of the words in blue.

Does that mean, the consciousness exists on people, and if the people die, there's no consciouness. If the cat dies, the grin does not exist.

Thanks!

  

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iclearwater 1. What does "so long the football of Victorian philosophers" mean? = for a long time the topic of argument by Victorian philosophers iclearwater So long = goodbye?

— Mister Micawber

  • iclearwater 1.
  • What does "so long the football of Victorian philosophers" mean?
  • = for a long time the topic of argument by Victorian philosophers iclearwater So long = goodbye?
  • No.
  • iclearwater 2.
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iclearwater1. What does "so long the football of Victorian philosophers" mean?

= for a long time the topic of argument by Victorian philosophers

iclearwaterSo long = goodbye?

No.

iclearwater2. I learnt an idiom "as grin as a Cheshire cat", but don't understand the meaning of the words in
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iclearwater1. What does "so long the football of Victorian philosophers" mean? So long = goodbye?

A football is a game object that is passed from one player to another. They make progress towards a goal, and sometimes adversaries steal the ball and take it in the opposite direction.

The analogy is that philosophers throw ideas (about consciousness and

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