18 ideas
7719 | European philosophy consists of a series of footnotes to Plato [Whitehead] |
7548 | Classes, grouped by a convenient property, are logical constructions [Russell] |
10656 | With 'extensive connection', boundary elements are not included in domains [Whitehead, by Varzi] |
15389 | In Whitehead 'processes' consist of events beginning and ending [Whitehead, by Simons] |
7545 | Visible things are physical and external, but only exist when viewed [Russell] |
15797 | All structures are dispositional, objects are dispositions sets, and events manifest dispositions [Fetzer] |
15800 | All events and objects are dispositional, and hence all structural properties are dispositional [Fetzer] |
7549 | If my body literally lost its mind, the object seen when I see a flash would still exist [Russell] |
7553 | Sense-data are purely physical [Russell] |
7546 | A man is a succession of momentary men, bound by continuity and causation [Russell] |
7550 | We could probably, in principle, infer minds from brains, and brains from minds [Russell] |
15798 | Kinds are arrangements of dispositions [Fetzer] |
15247 | Whitehead held that perception was a necessary feature of all causation [Whitehead, by Harré/Madden] |
15799 | Lawlike sentences are general attributions of disposition to all members of some class [Fetzer] |
7551 | Matter is a logical construction [Russell] |
7547 | Matter requires a division into time-corpuscles as well as space-corpuscles [Russell] |
7552 | Six dimensions are needed for a particular, three within its own space, and three to locate that space [Russell] |
16962 | Whitehead replaced points with extended regions [Whitehead, by Quine] |