Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Confessions of a Philosopher', 'Presentism and Properties' and 'Letters'

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6 ideas

16. Persons / C. Self-Awareness / 3. Limits of Introspection
3102 Why don't we experience or remember going to sleep at night? [Magee]
22. Metaethics / B. Value / 1. Nature of Value / b. Fact and value
4581 Virtues and vices are like secondary qualities in perception, found in observers, not objects [Hume]
23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 2. Elements of Virtue Theory / c. Motivation for virtue
4580 All virtues benefit either the public, or the individual who possesses them [Hume]
26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 3. Final causes
4579 The idea of a final cause is very uncertain and unphilosophical [Hume]
26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 9. General Causation / d. Causal necessity
20705 That events could be uncaused is absurd; I only say intuition and demonstration don't show this [Hume]
27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 1. Nature of Time / h. Presentism
14409 I am a presentist, and all language and common sense supports my view [Bigelow]