6 ideas
9216 | Each area of enquiry, and its source, has its own distinctive type of necessity [Fine,K] |
19590 | Empiricists are passive thinkers, given their philosophy by the external world and fate [Novalis] |
9214 | Unsupported testimony may still be believable [Fine,K] |
7388 | McGinn invites surrender, by saying it is hopeless trying to imagine conscious machines [Dennett on McGinn] |
3185 | Multiple realisability rules out hidden essences and experts as the source of water- and gold-concepts [McGinn] |
9215 | Causation is easier to disrupt than logic, so metaphysics is part of nature, not vice versa [Fine,K] |