12 ideas
22026 | Philosophy is homesickness - the urge to be at home everywhere [Novalis] |
4304 | Descartes says there are two substance, Spinoza one, and Leibniz infinitely many [Cottingham] |
4303 | The notion of substance lies at the heart of rationalist metaphysics [Cottingham] |
5662 | Maybe induction could never prove the existence of something unobservable [Ayer] |
19591 | Desire for perfection is an illness, if it turns against what is imperfect [Novalis] |
5664 | Consciousness must involve a subject, and only bodies identify subjects [Ayer] |
5668 | People own conscious states because they are causally related to the identifying body [Ayer] |
5661 | We identify experiences by their owners, so we can't define owners by their experiences [Ayer] |
5665 | Memory is the best proposal as what unites bundles of experiences [Ayer] |
5666 | Not all exerience can be remembered, as this would produce an infinite regress [Ayer] |
5669 | Personal identity can't just be relations of experiences, because the body is needed to identify them [Ayer] |
4306 | For rationalists, it is necessary that effects be deducible from their causes [Cottingham] |