14 ideas
3035 | Dialectic involves conversations with short questions and brief answers [Diog. Laertius] |
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] |
16055 | Materialism requires that physics be causally complete [Horgan,T] |
16054 | Physicalism needs more than global supervenience on the physical [Horgan,T] |
1816 | Sceptics say demonstration depends on self-demonstrating things, or indemonstrable things [Diog. Laertius] |
1819 | Scepticism has two dogmas: that nothing is definable, and every argument has an opposite argument [Diog. Laertius] |
3064 | When sceptics say that nothing is definable, or all arguments have an opposite, they are being dogmatic [Diog. Laertius] |
16057 | Instrumentalism normally says some discourse is useful, but not genuinely true [Horgan,T] |
3033 | Induction moves from some truths to similar ones, by contraries or consequents [Diog. Laertius] |
7258 | The forefather of modern intuitionism is Richard Price [Price,R, by Dancy,J] |
1838 | Cyrenaic pleasure is a motion, but Epicurean pleasure is a condition [Diog. Laertius] |
1769 | Cynics believe that when a man wishes for nothing he is like the gods [Diog. Laertius] |