9 ideas
21829 | Philosophy aims to understand how things (broadly understood) hang together (broadly understood) [Sellars] |
6550 | Reduction requires that an object's properties consist of its constituents' properties and relations [Sellars] |
15312 | We get the idea of power by abstracting from ropes, magnets and electric shocks [Priestley] |
8793 | If observation is knowledge, it is not just an experience; it is a justification in the space of reasons [Sellars] |
8792 | Observations like 'this is green' presuppose truths about what is a reliable symptom of what [Sellars] |
6382 | The 'grain problem' says physical objects are granular, where sensations appear not to be [Sellars, by Polger] |
8791 | The concept of 'green' involves a battery of other concepts [Sellars] |
20930 | The existence of law is one thing, its merits and demerits another [Austin,J] |
15311 | Attraction or repulsion are not imparted to matter, but actually constitute it [Priestley] |