16 ideas
5784 | In its primary and formal sense, 'true' applies to propositions, not beliefs [Russell] |
5777 | The truth or falsehood of a belief depends upon a fact to which the belief 'refers' [Russell] |
5783 | Propositions of existence, generalities, disjunctions and hypotheticals make correspondence tricky [Russell] |
5780 | The three questions about belief are its contents, its success, and its character [Russell] |
6375 | The taste of chocolate is a 'finer-grained' sensation than the taste of sweetness [Polger] |
7628 | Broad rejects the inferential component of the representative theory [Broad, by Maund] |
6381 | The mind and the self are one, and the mind-self is a biological phenomenon [Polger] |
5778 | If we object to all data which is 'introspective' we will cease to believe in toothaches [Russell] |
6378 | Teleological functions explain why a trait exists; causal-role functions say what it does [Polger] |
5779 | There are distinct sets of psychological and physical causal laws [Russell] |
6380 | Identity theory says consciousness is an abstraction: a state, event, process or property [Polger] |
5781 | Our important beliefs all, if put into words, take the form of propositions [Russell] |
5782 | A proposition expressed in words is a 'word-proposition', and one of images an 'image-proposition' [Russell] |
5776 | A proposition is what we believe when we believe truly or falsely [Russell] |
6379 | A mummified heart has the teleological function of circulating blood [Polger] |
6377 | Teleological notions of function say what a thing is supposed to do [Polger] |