9 ideas
9198 | It is no longer possible to be a sage, but we can practice the exercise of wisdom [Hadot] |
9197 | The logos represents a demand for universal rationality [Hadot] |
5500 | Biologists see many organic levels, 'abstract' if seen from below, 'structural' if seen from above [Lycan] |
5494 | 'Lightning is electric discharge' and 'Phosphorus is Venus' are synthetic a posteriori identities [Lycan] |
19440 | How do you know you have conceived a thing deeply enough to assess its possibility? [Vaidya] |
5496 | Functionalism has three linked levels: physical, functional, and mental [Lycan] |
5499 | A mental state is a functional realisation of a brain state when it serves the purpose of the organism [Lycan] |
9196 | The pleasure of existing is the only genuine pleasure [Hadot] |
5501 | People are trying to explain biological teleology in naturalistic causal terms [Lycan] |