15 ideas
3523 | Shadows are supervenient on their objects, but not reducible [Maslin] |
3517 | 'Ontology' means 'study of things which exist' [Maslin] |
9329 | Justification is coherence with a background system; if irrefutable, it is knowledge [Lehrer] |
3538 | Analogy to other minds is uncheckable, over-confident and chauvinistic [Maslin] |
9330 | Generalization seems to be more fundamental to minds than spotting similarities [Lehrer] |
3540 | If we are brains then we never meet each other [Maslin] |
9328 | All conscious states can be immediately known when attention is directed to them [Lehrer] |
3518 | I'm not the final authority on my understanding of maths [Maslin] |
3530 | Denial of purely mental causation will lead to epiphenomenalism [Maslin] |
3520 | Token-identity removes the explanatory role of the physical [Maslin] |
1748 | Archelaus was the first person to say that the universe is boundless [Archelaus, by Diog. Laertius] |
3528 | Causality may require that a law is being followed [Maslin] |
3525 | Strict laws make causation logically necessary [Maslin] |
3527 | Strict laws allow no exceptions and are part of a closed system [Maslin] |
5989 | Archelaus said life began in a primeval slime [Archelaus, by Schofield] |