10 ideas
10528 | Definitions concern how we should speak, not how things are [Fine,K] |
18344 | Truth and falsehood must track what does or doesn't exist [Bigelow] |
10529 | If Hume's Principle can define numbers, we needn't worry about its truth [Fine,K] |
10530 | Hume's Principle is either adequate for number but fails to define properly, or vice versa [Fine,K] |
5500 | Biologists see many organic levels, 'abstract' if seen from below, 'structural' if seen from above [Lycan] |
5494 | 'Lightning is electric discharge' and 'Phosphorus is Venus' are synthetic a posteriori identities [Lycan] |
5496 | Functionalism has three linked levels: physical, functional, and mental [Lycan] |
5499 | A mental state is a functional realisation of a brain state when it serves the purpose of the organism [Lycan] |
10527 | An abstraction principle should not 'inflate', producing more abstractions than objects [Fine,K] |
5501 | People are trying to explain biological teleology in naturalistic causal terms [Lycan] |