15 ideas
21959 | Metaphysics is the most general attempt to make sense of things [Moore,AW] |
20744 | Phenomenologists say all experience is about something and is directed [Aho] |
15395 | Give up objects necessitating truths, and say their natures cause the truths? [Cameron] |
15394 | Truthmaker requires a commitment to tropes or states of affairs, for contingent truths [Cameron] |
15401 | Essentialists say intrinsic properties arise from what the thing is, irrespective of surroundings [Cameron] |
15393 | An object's intrinsic properties are had in virtue of how it is, independently [Cameron] |
15396 | Most criteria for identity over time seem to leave two later objects identical to the earlier one [Cameron] |
21958 | Appearances are nothing beyond representations, which is transcendental ideality [Moore,AW] |
20736 | Science has to abstract out the subjective attributes of things, focusing on what is objective [Aho] |
20734 | Anxiety, nausea, guilt and absurdity shake us up, revealing our freedom and limits [Aho] |
20733 | Our 'existence' is how we create ourselves, unconstrained by any prior 'essence' [Aho] |
20753 | The self is constituted by its choices made within a social context [Aho] |
20738 | Social contracts and markets have made society seem disconnected and artificial [Aho] |
20737 | Protestantism brought the modern emphasis on inner states of the soul [Aho] |
20766 | Four Noble Truths: life is suffering, caused by attachment, it is avoidable, there is a path [Aho] |