18 ideas
9327 | Organisms understand their worlds better if they understand themselves [Gulick] |
8868 | Objective truth arises from interpersonal communication [Davidson] |
8203 | All the arithmetical entities can be reduced to classes of integers, and hence to sets [Quine] |
9325 | In contrast with knowledge, the notion of understanding emphasizes practical engagement [Gulick] |
8867 | A belief requires understanding the distinctions of true-and-false, and appearance-and-reality [Davidson] |
9326 | Knowing-that is a much richer kind of knowing-how [Gulick] |
10347 | Objectivity is intersubjectivity [Davidson] |
8866 | If we know other minds through behaviour, but not our own, we should assume they aren't like me [Davidson] |
10346 | Knowing other minds rests on knowing both one's own mind and the external world [Davidson, by Dummett] |
9319 | Is consciousness a type of self-awareness, or is being self-aware a way of being conscious? [Gulick] |
9320 | Higher-order theories divide over whether the higher level involves thought or perception [Gulick] |
9321 | Higher-order models reduce the problem of consciousness to intentionality [Gulick] |
9322 | Maybe qualia only exist at the lower level, and a higher-level is needed for what-it-is-like [Gulick] |
8202 | Meaning is essence divorced from things and wedded to words [Quine] |
8201 | The distinction between meaning and further information is as vague as the essence/accident distinction [Quine] |
8870 | Content of thought is established through communication, so knowledge needs other minds [Davidson] |
8869 | The principle of charity attributes largely consistent logic and largely true beliefs to speakers [Davidson] |
9324 | From the teleopragmatic perspective, life is largely an informational process [Gulick] |