12 ideas
4187 | 'There is nothing without a reason why it should be rather than not be' (a generalisation of 'Why?') [Schopenhauer] |
4192 | All necessity arises from causation, which is conditioned; there is no absolute or unconditioned necessity [Schopenhauer] |
18415 | The actual world is just the world you are in [Lewis, by Cappelen/Dever] |
4190 | All understanding is an immediate apprehension of the causal relation [Schopenhauer] |
16392 | A content is a property, and believing it is self-ascribing that property [Lewis, by Recanati] |
604 | Knowledge is mind and knowing 'cohabiting' [Lycophron, by Aristotle] |
4191 | What we know in ourselves is not a knower but a will [Schopenhauer] |
21368 | The knot of the world is the use of 'I' to refer to both willing and knowing [Schopenhauer] |
18416 | Attitudes involve properties (not propositions), and belief is self-ascribing the properties [Lewis, by Solomon] |
16390 | Lewis's popular centred worlds approach gives an attitude an index of world, subject and time [Lewis, by Recanati] |
18418 | A theory of perspectival de se content gives truth conditions relative to an agent [Lewis, by Cappelen/Dever] |
4189 | Time may be defined as the possibility of mutually exclusive conditions of the same thing [Schopenhauer] |