12 ideas
4187 | 'There is nothing without a reason why it should be rather than not be' (a generalisation of 'Why?') [Schopenhauer] |
8132 | We now have a much more sophisticated understanding of logical form in language [Burge] |
4192 | All necessity arises from causation, which is conditioned; there is no absolute or unconditioned necessity [Schopenhauer] |
4190 | All understanding is an immediate apprehension of the causal relation [Schopenhauer] |
8126 | Anti-individualism says the environment is involved in the individuation of some mental states [Burge] |
8127 | Broad concepts suggest an extension of the mind into the environment (less computer-like) [Burge] |
4191 | What we know in ourselves is not a knower but a will [Schopenhauer] |
8129 | Anti-individualism may be incompatible with some sorts of self-knowledge [Burge] |
21368 | The knot of the world is the use of 'I' to refer to both willing and knowing [Schopenhauer] |
8131 | Some qualities of experience, like blurred vision, have no function at all [Burge] |
7903 | The six perfections are giving, morality, patience, vigour, meditation, and wisdom [Nagarjuna] |
4189 | Time may be defined as the possibility of mutually exclusive conditions of the same thing [Schopenhauer] |