24 ideas
3798 | An overexamined life is as bad as an unexamined one [Dennett] |
17651 | Without words or other symbols, we have no world [Goodman] |
3801 | Rationality requires the assumption that things are either for better or worse [Dennett] |
17652 | Truth is irrelevant if no statements are involved [Goodman] |
17656 | Being primitive or prior always depends on a constructional system [Goodman] |
17661 | We don't recognise patterns - we invent them [Goodman] |
17659 | Reality is largely a matter of habit [Goodman] |
17657 | We build our world, and ignore anything that won't fit [Goodman] |
17654 | A world can be full of variety or not, depending on how we sort it [Goodman] |
14381 | A statue is essentially the statue, but its lump is not essentially a statue, so statue isn't lump [Yablo, by Rocca] |
17653 | Things can only be judged the 'same' by citing some respect of sameness [Goodman] |
3802 | Why pronounce impossible what you cannot imagine? [Dennett] |
17660 | Discovery is often just finding a fit, like a jigsaw puzzle [Goodman] |
3795 | Causal theories require the "right" sort of link (usually unspecified) [Dennett] |
17658 | Users of digital thermometers recognise no temperatures in the gaps [Goodman] |
17650 | We lack frames of reference to transform physics, biology and psychology into one another [Goodman] |
17655 | Grue and green won't be in the same world, as that would block induction entirely [Goodman] |
3797 | I am the sum total of what I directly control [Dennett] |
3800 | You can be free even though force would have prevented you doing otherwise [Dennett, by PG] |
3803 | Can we conceive of a being with a will freer than our own? [Dennett] |
3791 | Awareness of thought is a step beyond awareness of the world [Dennett] |
3794 | Foreknowledge permits control [Dennett] |
3796 | The active self is a fiction created because we are ignorant of our motivations [Dennett] |
17649 | If the world is one it has many aspects, and if there are many worlds they will collect into one [Goodman] |