12 ideas
5515 | Imaginary cases are good for revealing our beliefs, rather than the truth [Parfit] |
15102 | S4 says there must be some necessary truths (the actual ones, of which there is at least one) [Cameron] |
5516 | Reduction can be by identity, or constitution, or elimination [Parfit, by PG] |
15103 | Blackburn fails to show that the necessary cannot be grounded in the contingent [Cameron] |
5514 | Psychologists are interested in identity as a type of person, but philosophers study numerical identity [Parfit] |
5521 | If my brain-halves are transplanted into two bodies, I have continuity, and don't need identity [Parfit] |
5522 | Over a period of time what matters is not that 'I' persist, but that I have psychological continuity [Parfit] |
5519 | It is fine to save two dying twins by merging parts of their bodies into one, and identity is irrelevant [Parfit] |
5520 | If two humans are merged surgically, the new identity is a purely verbal problem [Parfit] |
5518 | It doesn't matter whether I exist with half my components replaced (any more than an audio system) [Parfit] |
15877 | The aim of science is just to create a comprehensive, elegant language to describe brute facts [Poincaré, by Harré] |
15104 | The 'moving spotlight' theory makes one time privileged, while all times are on a par ontologically [Cameron] |