12 ideas
13445 | Descartes showed a one-one order-preserving match between points on a line and the real numbers [Descartes, by Hart,WD] |
16774 | Descartes thinks distinguishing substances from aggregates is pointless [Descartes, by Pasnau] |
16978 | If conceivability is a priori coherence, that implies possibility [Tahko] |
7400 | Descartes said images can refer to objects without resembling them (as words do) [Descartes, by Tuck] |
16975 | Essences are used to explain natural kinds, modality, and causal powers [Tahko] |
8130 | Qualities of experience are just representational aspects of experience ('Representationalism') [Harman, by Burge] |
4310 | We have inner awareness of our freedom [Descartes] |
6553 | Descartes discussed the interaction problem, and compared it with gravity [Descartes, by Lycan] |
19676 | Nature is devoid of thought [Descartes, by Meillassoux] |
6518 | Matter can't just be Descartes's geometry, because a filler of the spaces is needed [Robinson,H on Descartes] |
16976 | Scientific essentialists tend to characterise essence in terms of modality (not vice versa) [Tahko] |
16977 | If essence is modal and laws are necessary, essentialist knowledge is found by scientists [Tahko] |