9 ideas
22026 | Philosophy is homesickness - the urge to be at home everywhere [Novalis] |
6375 | The taste of chocolate is a 'finer-grained' sensation than the taste of sweetness [Polger] |
19591 | Desire for perfection is an illness, if it turns against what is imperfect [Novalis] |
6381 | The mind and the self are one, and the mind-self is a biological phenomenon [Polger] |
6378 | Teleological functions explain why a trait exists; causal-role functions say what it does [Polger] |
6380 | Identity theory says consciousness is an abstraction: a state, event, process or property [Polger] |
7319 | If we give up synonymy, we have to give up significance, meaning and sense [Grice/Strawson] |
6379 | A mummified heart has the teleological function of circulating blood [Polger] |
6377 | Teleological notions of function say what a thing is supposed to do [Polger] |