16 ideas
3067 | A philosopher should have principles ready for understanding, like a surgeon with instruments [Aurelius] |
16489 | Is it possible to state every possible truth about the whole course of nature without using 'not'? [Russell] |
3072 | Everything is changing, including yourself and the whole universe [Aurelius] |
16490 | Some facts about experience feel like logical necessities [Russell] |
16488 | It is hard to explain how a sentence like 'it is not raining' can be found true by observation [Russell] |
7658 | Obviously there can't be a functional anaylsis of qualia if they are defined by intrinsic properties [Dennett] |
7655 | The work done by the 'homunculus in the theatre' must be spread amongst non-conscious agencies [Dennett] |
7657 | Intelligent agents are composed of nested homunculi, of decreasing intelligence, ending in machines [Dennett] |
7656 | I don't deny consciousness; it just isn't what people think it is [Dennett] |
7654 | What matters about neuro-science is the discovery of the functional role of the chemistry [Dennett] |
16491 | If we define 'this is not blue' as disbelief in 'this is blue', we eliminate 'not' as an ingredient of facts [Russell] |
3066 | Nothing is evil which is according to nature [Aurelius] |
3071 | Justice has no virtue opposed to it, but pleasure has temperance opposed to it [Aurelius] |
3069 | The art of life is more like the wrestler's than the dancer's [Aurelius] |
3065 | Humans are naturally made for co-operation [Aurelius] |
4786 | Russell's 'at-at' theory says motion is to be at the intervening points at the intervening instants [Russell, by Psillos] |