27 ideas
14018 | Is Sufficient Reason self-refuting (no reason to accept it!), or is it a legitimate explanatory tool? [Bourne] |
14008 | The redundancy theory conflates metalinguistic bivalence with object-language excluded middle [Bourne] |
22076 | Being is only perceptible to itself as becoming [Schelling] |
14010 | All relations between spatio-temporal objects are either spatio-temporal, or causal [Bourne] |
14009 | It is a necessary condition for the existence of relations that both of the relata exist [Bourne] |
16740 | A power is not a cause, but an aptitude for a cause [Zabarella] |
22072 | Schelling always affirmed the absolute status of freedom [Schelling, by Courtine] |
21925 | For Schelling the Absolute spirit manifests as nature in which self-consciousness evolves [Schelling, by Lewis,PB] |
22045 | Metaphysics aims at the Absolute, which goes beyond subjective and objective viewpoints [Schelling, by Pinkard] |
22074 | We must show that the whole of nature, because it is effective, is grounded in freedom [Schelling] |
22073 | The basis of philosophy is the Self prior to experience, where it is the essence of freedom [Schelling] |
22075 | Only idealism has given us the genuine concept of freedom [Schelling] |
20956 | Ultimately, all being is willing. The nature of primal being is the same as the nature of willing [Schelling] |
20957 | We don't choose our characters, yet we still claim credit for the actions our characters perform [Schelling] |
22057 | Schelling sought a union between the productivities of nature and of the mind [Schelling, by Bowie] |
22031 | Schelling made organisms central to nature, because mere mechanism could never produce them [Schelling, by Pinkard] |
16571 | Prime matter is exceptionally obscure [Zabarella] |
14016 | The idea of simultaneity in Special Relativity is full of verificationist assumptions [Bourne] |
14019 | Relativity denies simultaneity, so it needs past, present and future (unlike Presentism) [Bourne] |
14013 | Special Relativity allows an absolute past, future, elsewhere and simultaneity [Bourne] |
14015 | No-Futurists believe in past and present, but not future, and say the world grows as facts increase [Bourne] |
14007 | How can presentists talk of 'earlier than', and distinguish past from future? [Bourne] |
14011 | Presentism seems to deny causation, because the cause and the effect can never coexist [Bourne] |
14017 | Since presentists treat the presentness of events as basic, simultaneity should be define by that means [Bourne] |
14003 | Time is tensed or tenseless; the latter says all times and objects are real, and there is no passage of time [Bourne] |
14005 | B-series objects relate to each other; A-series objects relate to the present [Bourne] |
14006 | Time flows, past is fixed, future is open, future is feared but not past, we remember past, we plan future [Bourne] |