8 ideas
12733 | Because of the definitions of cause, effect and power, cause and effect have the same power [Leibniz] |
21315 | A tree remains the same in the popular sense, but not in the strict philosophical sense [Butler] |
12734 | Every necessary proposition is demonstrable to someone who understands [Leibniz] |
21317 | Despite consciousness fluctuating, we are aware that it belongs to one person [Butler] |
21313 | If consciousness of events makes our identity, then if we have forgotten them we didn't exist then [Butler] |
21314 | Consciousness presupposes personal identity, so it cannot constitute it [Butler] |
21318 | If the self changes, we have no responsibilities, and no interest in past or future [Butler] |
15877 | The aim of science is just to create a comprehensive, elegant language to describe brute facts [Poincaré, by Harré] |