10 ideas
6782 | Realism is the only philosophy of science that doesn't make the success of science a miracle [Putnam] |
16664 | Everything that exists is either a substance or an accident [Albert of Saxony] |
22181 | Putnam says anti-realism is a bad explanation of accurate predictions [Putnam, by Okasha] |
16703 | God could make a successive thing so that previous parts cease to exist [Albert of Saxony] |
16699 | Successive entities just need parts to succeed one another, without their existence [Albert of Saxony] |
21315 | A tree remains the same in the popular sense, but not in the strict philosophical sense [Butler] |
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] |