16 ideas
5163 | Basic propositions refer to a single experience, are incorrigible, and conclusively verifiable [Ayer] |
5167 | The argument from analogy fails, so the best account of other minds is behaviouristic [Ayer] |
3654 | The pineal gland links soul to body, and unites the two symmetrical sides of the body [Descartes, by PG] |
4015 | For Descartes passions are God-given preservers of the mind-body union [Descartes, by Taylor,C] |
4313 | Are there a few primary passions (say, joy, sadness and desire)? [Descartes, by Cottingham] |
23989 | There are six primitive passions: wonder, love, hatred, desire, joy and sadness [Descartes, by Goldie] |
5164 | A statement is meaningful if observation statements can be deduced from it [Ayer] |
5165 | Directly verifiable statements must entail at least one new observation statement [Ayer] |
5166 | The principle of verification is not an empirical hypothesis, but a definition [Ayer] |
5162 | Sentences only express propositions if they are meaningful; otherwise they are 'statements' [Ayer] |
20037 | Merely willing to walk leads to our walking [Descartes] |
5168 | Moral approval and disapproval concerns classes of actions, rather than particular actions [Ayer] |
16763 | We don't die because the soul departs; the soul departs because the organs cease functioning [Descartes] |
541 | Virtue comes more from habit than character [Critias] |
4016 | Descartes makes strength of will the central virtue [Descartes, by Taylor,C] |
542 | Fear of the gods was invented to discourage secret sin [Critias] |