15 ideas
21959 | Metaphysics is the most general attempt to make sense of things [Moore,AW] |
5062 | First: there must be reasons; Second: why anything at all?; Third: why this? [Leibniz] |
19377 | A monad and its body are living, so life is everywhere, and comes in infinite degrees [Leibniz] |
7630 | Ryle's dichotomy between knowing how and knowing that is too simplistic [Maund] |
21958 | Appearances are nothing beyond representations, which is transcendental ideality [Moore,AW] |
19353 | 'Perception' is basic internal representation, and 'apperception' is reflective knowledge of perception [Leibniz] |
7632 | Perception is sensation-then-concept, or direct-concepts, or sensation-saturated-in-concepts [Maund] |
7635 | Sense-data have an epistemological purpose (foundations) and a metaphysical purpose (explanation) [Maund] |
7638 | One thesis says we are not aware of qualia, but only of objects and their qualities [Maund] |
7642 | The Myth of the Given claims that thought is rationally supported by non-conceptual experiences [Maund] |
7640 | Mountains are adverbial modifications of the earth, but still have object-characteristics [Maund] |
7641 | Adverbialism tries to avoid sense-data and preserve direct realism [Maund] |
5061 | Animals are semi-rational because they connect facts, but they don't see causes [Leibniz] |
7637 | Thought content is either satisfaction conditions, or exercise of concepts [Maund, by PG] |
5063 | Music charms, although its beauty is the harmony of numbers [Leibniz] |