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Single Idea 18538

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Full Idea

Non-conscious thought need not resemble conscious thought occurring out of sight.

Gist of Idea

Non-conscious thought may be unlike conscious thought

Source

John Heil (The Universe as We Find It [2012], 12.10)

Book Ref

Heil,John: 'The Universe as We Find It' [OUP 2012], p.273

The 43 ideas from 'The Universe as We Find It'

18495 The best philosophers I know are the best people I know [Heil]
18494 Using a technical vocabulary actually prevents discussion of the presuppositions [Heil]
18505 Fundamental ontology aims at the preconditions for any true theory [Heil]
18504 Only particulars exist, and generality is our mode of presentation [Heil]
18506 Questions of explanation should not be confused with metaphyics [Heil]
18507 Substances bear properties, so must be simple, and not consist of further substances [Heil]
18508 Most philosophers now (absurdly) believe that relations fully exist [Heil]
18509 Not all truths need truthmakers - mathematics and logic seem to be just true [Heil]
18510 We need properties to explain how the world works [Heil]
18511 Properties have causal roles which sets can't possibly have [Heil]
18512 Ontology aims to give the fundamental categories of being [Heil]
18513 Emergent properties will need emergent substances to bear them [Heil]
18514 Many wholes can survive replacement of their parts [Heil]
18515 Spatial parts are just regions, but objects depend on and are made up of substantial parts [Heil]
18516 A 'gunky' universe would literally have no parts at all [Heil]
18517 Dunes depend on sand grains, but line segments depend on the whole line [Heil]
18518 Infinite numbers are qualitatively different - they are not just very large numbers [Heil]
18519 If there were infinite electrons, they could vanish without affecting total mass-energy [Heil]
18520 Electrons are treated as particles, but they lose their individuality in relations [Heil]
18522 Categorical properties were introduced by philosophers as actual properties, not if-then properties [Heil]
18523 Are all properties powers, or are there also qualities, or do qualities have the powers? [Heil]
18524 Properties are both qualitative and dispositional - they are powerful qualities [Heil]
18525 Mental abstraction does not make what is abstracted mind-dependent [Heil]
18526 We should focus on actual causings, rather than on laws and causal sequences [Heil]
18527 Probabilistic causation is not a weak type of cause; it is just a probability of there being a cause [Heil]
18531 Philosophers of the past took the truthmaking idea for granted [Heil]
18532 If causal relations are power manifestations, that makes them internal relations [Heil]
18533 In Fa, F may not be a property of a, but a determinable, satisfied by some determinate [Heil]
18534 Truth relates truthbearers to truthmakers [Heil]
18496 If possible worlds are just fictions, they can't be truthmakers for modal judgements [Heil]
18498 Abstract objects wouldn't be very popular without the implicit idea of truthmakers [Heil]
18497 Many reject 'moral realism' because they can't see any truthmakers for normative judgements [Heil]
18500 How could structures be mathematical truthmakers? Maths is just true, without truthmakers [Heil]
18499 Our quantifications only reveal the truths we accept; the ontology and truthmakers are another matter [Heil]
18502 If basic physics has natures, then why not reality itself? That would then found the deepest necessities [Heil]
18501 Maybe the universe is fine-tuned because it had to be, despite plans by God or Nature? [Heil]
18503 You can think of tomatoes without grasping what they are [Heil]
18535 Without abstraction we couldn't think systematically [Heil]
18536 The subject-predicate form reflects reality [Heil]
18538 Non-conscious thought may be unlike conscious thought [Heil]
18537 Linguistic thought is just as imagistic as non-linguistic thought [Heil]
18540 Predicates only match properties at the level of fundamentals [Heil]
18539 Our categories lack the neat arrangement needed for reduction [Heil]