9 ideas
23367 | Even pointing a finger should only be done for a reason [Epictetus] |
5500 | Biologists see many organic levels, 'abstract' if seen from below, 'structural' if seen from above [Lycan] |
5494 | 'Lightning is electric discharge' and 'Phosphorus is Venus' are synthetic a posteriori identities [Lycan] |
5496 | Functionalism has three linked levels: physical, functional, and mental [Lycan] |
5499 | A mental state is a functional realisation of a brain state when it serves the purpose of the organism [Lycan] |
23035 | The good life aims at perfections, or absolute laws, or what is absolutely desirable [Green,TH] |
23037 | People are improved by egalitarian institutions and habits [Green,TH] |
23043 | All talk of the progress of a nation must reduce to the progress of its individual members [Green,TH] |
5501 | People are trying to explain biological teleology in naturalistic causal terms [Lycan] |