8 ideas
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] |
19518 | Evidentialism says justifications supervene on the available evidence [Conee/Feldman] |
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] |
19519 | Rational decisions are either taken to be based on evidence, or to be explained causally [Conee/Feldman] |
5501 | People are trying to explain biological teleology in naturalistic causal terms [Lycan] |
15877 | The aim of science is just to create a comprehensive, elegant language to describe brute facts [Poincaré, by Harré] |