11 ideas
18270 | Choice suggests that intensions are not needed to ensure classes [Coffa] |
16641 | Whiteness does not exist, but by it something can exist-as-white [Aquinas] |
22170 | Senses grasp external properties, but the understanding grasps the essential natures of things [Aquinas] |
22169 | Initial universal truths are present within us as potential, to be drawn out by reason [Aquinas] |
18263 | The semantic tradition aimed to explain the a priori semantically, not by Kantian intuition [Coffa] |
18272 | Platonism defines the a priori in a way that makes it unknowable [Coffa] |
22168 | Minds take in a likeness of things, which activates an awaiting potential [Aquinas] |
18266 | Mathematics generalises by using variables [Coffa] |
7861 | Libet says the processes initiated in the cortex can still be consciously changed [Libet, by Papineau] |
6660 | Libet found conscious choice 0.2 secs before movement, well after unconscious 'readiness potential' [Libet, by Lowe] |
18279 | Relativity is as absolutist about space-time as Newton was about space [Coffa] |