8 ideas
5035 | The two basics of reasoning are contradiction and sufficient reason [Leibniz] |
9159 | You can't simply convert geometry into algebra, as some spatial content is lost [Burge] |
3539 | Personal identity is just causally related mental states [Parfit, by Maslin] |
1393 | One of my future selves will not necessarily be me [Parfit] |
1392 | If we split like amoeba, we would be two people, neither of them being us [Parfit] |
1391 | Concern for our own lives isn't the source of belief in identity, it is the result of it [Parfit] |
5038 | Assume that mind and body follow their own laws, but God has harmonised them [Leibniz] |
5037 | God doesn't decide that Adam will sin, but that sinful Adam's existence is to be preferred [Leibniz] |