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Ideas for 'Perception', 'Aristotle and Kant on the Source of Value' and 'Towards a Critique of Hegel's Philosophy'

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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 6. Physicalism

6504	For physicalists, the only relations are spatial, temporal and causal [Robinson,H]
	Full Idea: Spatial, temporal and causal relations are the only respectable candidates for relations for a physicalist.
	From: Howard Robinson (Perception [1994], V.4)
	A reaction: This seems to be true, and is an absolutely crucial principle upon which any respectable physicalist account of the world must be built. It means that physicalists must attempt to explain all mental events in causal terms.

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 11. Ontological Commitment / e. Ontological commitment problems

19446	To our consciousness it is language which looks unreal [Feuerbach]
	Full Idea: To sensuous consciousness it is precisely language that is unreal, nothing.
	From: Ludwig Feuerbach (Towards a Critique of Hegel's Philosophy [1839], p.77)
	A reaction: Offered as a corrective to the view that our ontological commitments entirely concern what we are willing to say.