32 ideas
2319 | Metaphysics is the clarification of the ontological relationships between different areas of thought [Kim] |
2317 | Reductionism is good on light, genes, temperature and transparency [Kim, by PG] |
2310 | Supervenience is linked to dependence [Kim] |
2315 | Mereological supervenience says wholes are fixed by parts [Kim] |
2329 | Causal power is a good way of distinguishing the real from the unreal [Kim] |
2320 | Properties can have causal powers lacked by their constituents [Kim] |
9329 | Justification is coherence with a background system; if irrefutable, it is knowledge [Lehrer] |
530 | There are two contradictory arguments about everything [Kim] |
13314 | Protagoras says arguments on both sides are always equal [Kim, by Seneca] |
2065 | Not every person is the measure of all things, but only wise people [Plato on Kim] |
1550 | Why didn't Protagoras begin by saying "a tadpole is the measure of all things"? [Plato on Kim] |
2318 | Agency, knowledge, reason, memory, psychology all need mental causes [Kim, by PG] |
2325 | It seems impossible that an exact physical copy of this world could lack intentionality [Kim] |
9330 | Generalization seems to be more fundamental to minds than spotting similarities [Lehrer] |
9328 | All conscious states can be immediately known when attention is directed to them [Lehrer] |
2324 | Intentionality as function seems possible [Kim] |
2314 | Maybe intentionality is reducible, but qualia aren't [Kim] |
2313 | Emergentism says there is no explanation for a supervenient property [Kim] |
2328 | The only mental property that might be emergent is that of qualia [Kim] |
2309 | Non-Reductive Physicalism relies on supervenience [Kim] |
2311 | Maybe strong supervenience implies reduction [Kim] |
2308 | Identity theory was overthrown by multiple realisations and causal anomalies [Kim] |
2322 | Multiple realisation applies to other species, and even one individual over time [Kim] |
2327 | Knowledge and inversion make functionalism about qualia doubtful [Kim] |
2323 | Emotions have both intentionality and qualia [Kim] |
8122 | True works of art transmit completely new feelings [Tolstoy] |
8121 | Art is when one man uses external signs to hand on his feelings to another man [Tolstoy] |
8124 | The highest feelings of mankind can only be transmitted by art [Tolstoy] |
8123 | The purpose of art is to help mankind to evolve better, more socially beneficial feelings [Tolstoy] |
22710 | People estimate art according to their moral values [Tolstoy] |
8125 | The upper classes put beauty first, and thus freed themselves from morality [Tolstoy] |
8064 | We separate the concept of beauty from goodness, unlike the ancients [Tolstoy] |