15 ideas
3798 | An overexamined life is as bad as an unexamined one [Dennett] |
21962 | Metaphysics is the roots of the tree of science [Descartes] |
3801 | Rationality requires the assumption that things are either for better or worse [Dennett] |
3659 | I know the truth that God exists and is the author of truth [Descartes] |
3802 | Why pronounce impossible what you cannot imagine? [Dennett] |
3657 | Understanding, not the senses, gives certainty [Descartes] |
3795 | Causal theories require the "right" sort of link (usually unspecified) [Dennett] |
5210 | We could know what a lion thinks by mapping both its brain patterns and its experiences [Douglas,A] |
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] |
3660 | Atheism arises from empiricism, because God is intangible [Descartes] |