12 ideas
4045 | Children may have three innate principles which enable them to learn to count [Goldman] |
4044 | Rat behaviour reveals a considerable ability to count [Goldman] |
17644 | Metaphysical realism is committed to there being one ultimate true theory [Putnam] |
17648 | It is an illusion to think there could be one good scientific theory of reality [Putnam] |
4048 | Infant brains appear to have inbuilt ontological categories [Goldman] |
19347 | Substance needs independence, unity, and stability (for individuation); also it is a subject, for predicates [Perkins] |
17643 | Shape is essential relative to 'statue', but not essential relative to 'clay' [Putnam] |
4043 | Elephants can be correctly identified from as few as three primitive shapes [Goldman] |
17642 | The old view that sense data are independent of mind is quite dotty [Putnam] |
4049 | The way in which colour experiences are evoked is physically odd and unpredictable [Goldman] |
4047 | Gestalt psychology proposes inbuilt proximity, similarity, smoothness and closure principles [Goldman] |
17645 | An alien might think oxygen was the main cause of a forest fire [Putnam] |