21 ideas
3523 | Shadows are supervenient on their objects, but not reducible [Maslin] |
3517 | 'Ontology' means 'study of things which exist' [Maslin] |
3538 | Analogy to other minds is uncheckable, over-confident and chauvinistic [Maslin] |
3540 | If we are brains then we never meet each other [Maslin] |
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] |
19451 | When absorbed in deep reflection, is your reason in control, or is it you? [Feuerbach] |
4867 | Whether nature is beautiful or orderly is entirely in relation to human imagination [Spinoza] |
19450 | Reason, love and will are the highest perfections and essence of man - the purpose of his life [Feuerbach] |
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] |
19448 | Consciousness is said to distinguish man from animals - consciousness of his own species [Feuerbach] |
4866 | God is a being with infinite attributes, each of them infinite or perfect [Spinoza] |
19454 | A God needs justice, kindness and wisdom, but those concepts don't depend on the concept of God [Feuerbach] |
4868 | Trying to prove God's existence through miracles is proving the obscure by the more obscure [Spinoza] |
19452 | The nature of God is an expression of human nature [Feuerbach] |
19453 | If love, goodness and personality are human, the God who is their source is anthropomorphic [Feuerbach] |
19449 | Religion is the consciousness of the infinite [Feuerbach] |
19455 | Today's atheism will tomorrow become a religion [Feuerbach] |