13 ideas
9148 | I think of variables as objects rather than as signs [Fine,K] |
7566 | The Identity of Indiscernibles is really the same as the verification principle [Jolley] |
21833 | Research suggest that we overrate conscious experience [Flanagan] |
9152 | If green is abstracted from a thing, it is only seen as a type if it is common to many things [Fine,K] |
21834 | Sensations may be identical to brain events, but complex mental events don't seem to be [Flanagan] |
9149 | To obtain the number 2 by abstraction, we only want to abstract the distinctness of a pair of objects [Fine,K] |
9150 | We should define abstraction in general, with number abstraction taken as a special case [Fine,K] |
9146 | After abstraction all numbers seem identical, so only 0 and 1 will exist! [Fine,K] |
21837 | Morality is normative because it identifies best practices among the normal practices [Flanagan] |
21830 | For Darwinians, altruism is either contracts or genetics [Flanagan] |
21835 | We need Eudaimonics - the empirical study of how we should flourish [Flanagan] |
21831 | Alienation is not finding what one wants, or being unable to achieve it [Flanagan] |
21832 | Buddhists reject God and the self, and accept suffering as key, and liberation through wisdom [Flanagan] |