Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'On the Conservation of Force', 'What Metaphors Mean' and 'Hippocrates of Cos on the mind'

expand these ideas     |    start again     |     specify just one area for these texts

---

6 ideas

17. Mind and Body / E. Mind as Physical / 1. Physical Mind

23217

All of our happiness and misery arises entirely from the brain [Hippocrates]

19. Language / F. Communication / 6. Interpreting Language / d. Metaphor

7777	We accept a metaphor when we see the sentence is false [Davidson]

7775	Understanding a metaphor is a creative act, with no rules [Davidson]

7776	Metaphors just mean what their words literally mean [Davidson]

27. Natural Reality / A. Classical Physics / 2. Thermodynamics / a. Energy

20646

Helmholtz used 'energy' to mathematically link heat, light, electricity and magnetism [Helmholtz, by Watson]

27. Natural Reality / A. Classical Physics / 2. Thermodynamics / c. Conservation of energy

20973

All forces conserve the sum of kinetic and potential energy [Helmholtz, by Papineau]