14 ideas
| 8132 | We now have a much more sophisticated understanding of logical form in language [Burge] |
| 5044 | Reality must be made of basic unities, which will be animated, substantial points [Leibniz] |
| 8983 | If 'red' is vague, then membership of the set of red things is vague, so there is no set of red things [Sainsbury] |
| 8986 | We should abandon classifying by pigeon-holes, and classify around paradigms [Sainsbury] |
| 8982 | Vague concepts are concepts without boundaries [Sainsbury] |
| 8984 | If concepts are vague, people avoid boundaries, can't spot them, and don't want them [Sainsbury] |
| 8985 | Boundaryless concepts tend to come in pairs, such as child/adult, hot/cold [Sainsbury] |
| 5045 | No machine or mere organised matter could have a unified self [Leibniz] |
| 8126 | Anti-individualism says the environment is involved in the individuation of some mental states [Burge] |
| 8127 | Broad concepts suggest an extension of the mind into the environment (less computer-like) [Burge] |
| 8129 | Anti-individualism may be incompatible with some sorts of self-knowledge [Burge] |
| 5046 | The soul does know bodies, although they do not influence one another [Leibniz] |
| 8131 | Some qualities of experience, like blurred vision, have no function at all [Burge] |
| 5043 | To regard animals as mere machines may be possible, but seems improbable [Leibniz] |