Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'The Nature of Mental States', 'The Metaphysics of Space-Time Substantivalism' and 'Notes on Logic'

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10 ideas

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 8. Facts / d. Negative facts
22312 Facts can be both positive and negative [Wittgenstein, by Potter]
17. Mind and Body / B. Behaviourism / 2. Potential Behaviour
2590 Dispositions need mental terms to define them [Putnam]
17. Mind and Body / B. Behaviourism / 4. Behaviourism Critique
2591 Total paralysis would mean that there were mental states but no behaviour at all [Putnam]
17. Mind and Body / C. Functionalism / 1. Functionalism
2588 Is pain a functional state of a complete organism? [Putnam]
2589 Functionalism is compatible with dualism, as pure mind could perform the functions [Putnam]
2592 Functional states correlate with AND explain pain behaviour [Putnam]
17. Mind and Body / D. Property Dualism / 3. Property Dualism
2587 Temperature is mean molecular kinetic energy, but they are two different concepts [Putnam]
17. Mind and Body / E. Mind as Physical / 7. Anti-Physicalism / b. Multiple realisability
6376 Neuroscience does not support multiple realisability, and tends to support identity [Polger on Putnam]
2330 If humans and molluscs both feel pain, it can't be a single biological state [Putnam, by Kim]
27. Natural Reality / C. Space / 4. Substantival Space
19035 General Relativity allows substantivalism about space-time - that it has independent properties [Hoefer]