Discussion
Which of the following is not true of Gilbert Ryle ?
Answer: D
The statement that is not true of Ryle is There can be a wholesale transference of the mental to the physical.
In The Concept of Mind (1949), Ryle attacks the Cartesian 'ghost in the machine', but he also refuses materialism. He says that the contrast between mind and matter will be dissolved, but not by absorbing mind into matter or matter into mind. So he does not hold that the mental can be wholly transferred to, or reduced to, the physical.
The other statements are his. He argues that a person's life is not a double series of events in two worlds (C), and that talk of mental states refers to dispositions and performances rather than to an inner life of hidden episodes (A). He also grants that much of our ordinary thinking goes on as silent soliloquy accompanied by visual imagery (B).
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