18 ideas
20744 | Phenomenologists say all experience is about something and is directed [Aho] |
5035 | The two basics of reasoning are contradiction and sufficient reason [Leibniz] |
3978 | Associations are held to connect Ideas together in the way the world is connected together [Fodor] |
20736 | Science has to abstract out the subjective attributes of things, focusing on what is objective [Aho] |
3976 | Intentional science needs objects with semantic and causal properties, and which obey laws [Fodor] |
3980 | Intentional states and processes may be causal relations among mental symbols [Fodor] |
5038 | Assume that mind and body follow their own laws, but God has harmonised them [Leibniz] |
3981 | Most psychological properties seem to be multiply realisable [Fodor] |
3975 | Folk psychology explains behaviour by reference to intentional states like belief and desire [Fodor] |
3982 | How could the extrinsic properties of thoughts supervene on their intrinsic properties? [Fodor] |
20734 | Anxiety, nausea, guilt and absurdity shake us up, revealing our freedom and limits [Aho] |
20733 | Our 'existence' is how we create ourselves, unconstrained by any prior 'essence' [Aho] |
20753 | The self is constituted by its choices made within a social context [Aho] |
20738 | Social contracts and markets have made society seem disconnected and artificial [Aho] |
3977 | Laws are true generalisations which support counterfactuals and are confirmed by instances [Fodor] |
20737 | Protestantism brought the modern emphasis on inner states of the soul [Aho] |
20766 | Four Noble Truths: life is suffering, caused by attachment, it is avoidable, there is a path [Aho] |
5037 | God doesn't decide that Adam will sin, but that sinful Adam's existence is to be preferred [Leibniz] |