Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Rearrangement of Particles', 'The Dappled World' and 'Philosophy of Mind: 1950-2000'

expand these ideas     |    start again     |     specify just one area for these texts

---

7 ideas

5. Theory of Logic / E. Structures of Logic / 1. Logical Form

8132	We now have a much more sophisticated understanding of logical form in language [Burge]

7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 1. Nature of Change

15540

You can't deny temporary intrinsic properties by saying the properties are relations (to times) [Lewis]

14. Science / B. Scientific Theories / 1. Scientific Theory

17503

Theories can never represent accurately, because their components are abstract [Cartwright,N, by Portides]

15. Nature of Minds / A. Nature of Mind / 6. Anti-Individualism

8126	Anti-individualism says the environment is involved in the individuation of some mental states [Burge]

8127	Broad concepts suggest an extension of the mind into the environment (less computer-like) [Burge]

16. Persons / C. Self-Awareness / 2. Knowing the Self

8129	Anti-individualism may be incompatible with some sorts of self-knowledge [Burge]

17. Mind and Body / C. Functionalism / 1. Functionalism

8131	Some qualities of experience, like blurred vision, have no function at all [Burge]