17 ideas
9327 | Organisms understand their worlds better if they understand themselves [Gulick] |
16062 | A necessary relation between fact-levels seems to be a further irreducible fact [Lynch/Glasgow] |
16061 | If some facts 'logically supervene' on some others, they just redescribe them, adding nothing [Lynch/Glasgow] |
16060 | Nonreductive materialism says upper 'levels' depend on lower, but don't 'reduce' [Lynch/Glasgow] |
16064 | The hallmark of physicalism is that each causal power has a base causal power under it [Lynch/Glasgow] |
9325 | In contrast with knowledge, the notion of understanding emphasizes practical engagement [Gulick] |
9326 | Knowing-that is a much richer kind of knowing-how [Gulick] |
9319 | Is consciousness a type of self-awareness, or is being self-aware a way of being conscious? [Gulick] |
9320 | Higher-order theories divide over whether the higher level involves thought or perception [Gulick] |
9321 | Higher-order models reduce the problem of consciousness to intentionality [Gulick] |
9322 | Maybe qualia only exist at the lower level, and a higher-level is needed for what-it-is-like [Gulick] |
22594 | In 1794 France all individual and legal rights were suppressed by the general will [Dunt] |
22602 | Over several centuries a set of eight main liberal values was established [Dunt] |
22596 | No government, or the whole nation, can control an individual beyond legitimate scope [Dunt] |
22603 | Laissez-faire liberalism failed to give people the protections and freedoms needed for a good life [Dunt] |
22592 | Nationalism pretends that we can only have a single identity [Dunt] |
9324 | From the teleopragmatic perspective, life is largely an informational process [Gulick] |