17 ideas
| 3798 | An overexamined life is as bad as an unexamined one [Dennett] |
| 3801 | Rationality requires the assumption that things are either for better or worse [Dennett] |
| 3802 | Why pronounce impossible what you cannot imagine? [Dennett] |
| 6375 | The taste of chocolate is a 'finer-grained' sensation than the taste of sweetness [Polger] |
| 3795 | Causal theories require the "right" sort of link (usually unspecified) [Dennett] |
| 13048 | Good explications are exact, fruitful, simple and similar to the explicandum [Carnap, by Salmon] |
| 3797 | I am the sum total of what I directly control [Dennett] |
| 6381 | The mind and the self are one, and the mind-self is a biological phenomenon [Polger] |
| 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] |
| 6378 | Teleological functions explain why a trait exists; causal-role functions say what it does [Polger] |
| 6380 | Identity theory says consciousness is an abstraction: a state, event, process or property [Polger] |
| 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] |