19 ideas
17651 | Without words or other symbols, we have no world [Goodman] |
17652 | Truth is irrelevant if no statements are involved [Goodman] |
5062 | First: there must be reasons; Second: why anything at all?; Third: why this? [Leibniz] |
17656 | Being primitive or prior always depends on a constructional system [Goodman] |
17661 | We don't recognise patterns - we invent them [Goodman] |
19377 | A monad and its body are living, so life is everywhere, and comes in infinite degrees [Leibniz] |
17659 | Reality is largely a matter of habit [Goodman] |
17657 | We build our world, and ignore anything that won't fit [Goodman] |
17654 | A world can be full of variety or not, depending on how we sort it [Goodman] |
17653 | Things can only be judged the 'same' by citing some respect of sameness [Goodman] |
19353 | 'Perception' is basic internal representation, and 'apperception' is reflective knowledge of perception [Leibniz] |
17660 | Discovery is often just finding a fit, like a jigsaw puzzle [Goodman] |
17658 | Users of digital thermometers recognise no temperatures in the gaps [Goodman] |
17650 | We lack frames of reference to transform physics, biology and psychology into one another [Goodman] |
17655 | Grue and green won't be in the same world, as that would block induction entirely [Goodman] |
5061 | Animals are semi-rational because they connect facts, but they don't see causes [Leibniz] |
5063 | Music charms, although its beauty is the harmony of numbers [Leibniz] |
20948 | Human cultures are organisms which grow, and then fade and die [Spengler, by Bowie] |
17649 | If the world is one it has many aspects, and if there are many worlds they will collect into one [Goodman] |