8 ideas
12170 | Amusement rests on superiority, or relief, or incongruity [Scruton] |
12173 | The central object of amusement is the human [Scruton] |
12169 | Since only men laugh, it seems to be an attribute of reason [Scruton] |
12172 | Objects of amusement do not have to be real [Scruton] |
8824 | No one has defended translational phenomenalism since Ayer in 1940 [Ayer, by Kim] |
12174 | Only rational beings are attentive without motive or concern [Scruton] |
14080 | Are causal descriptions part of the causal theory of reference, or are they just metasemantic? [Kaplan, by Schaffer,J] |
15251 | The attribution of necessity to causation is either primitive animism, or confusion with logical necessity [Ayer] |