13 ideas
16052 | 'Superdupervenience' is supervenience that has a robustly materialistic explanation [Horgan,T] |
16053 | 'Global' supervenience is facts tracking varying physical facts in every possible world [Horgan,T] |
16056 | Don't just observe supervenience - explain it! [Horgan,T] |
12695 | Epicurean atomists say body is sensible, to distinguish it from space. [Garber] |
16054 | Physicalism needs more than global supervenience on the physical [Horgan,T] |
16055 | Materialism requires that physics be causally complete [Horgan,T] |
9052 | Vague predicates lack application; there are no borderline cases; vague F is not F [Unger, by Keefe/Smith] |
16070 | There are no objects with proper parts; there are only mereological simples [Unger, by Wasserman] |
8724 | The meaning of 'know' does not change from courtroom to living room [Unger] |
8722 | No one knows anything, and no one is ever justified or reasonable [Unger] |
8723 | An evil scientist may give you a momentary life, with totally false memories [Unger] |
16057 | Instrumentalism normally says some discourse is useful, but not genuinely true [Horgan,T] |
12705 | Epicurean atoms are distinguished by their extreme hardness [Garber] |