9 ideas
19489 | For me, fictions are internally true, without a significant internal or external truth-value [Yablo] |
19490 | Make-believe can help us to reason about facts and scientific procedures [Yablo] |
19491 | 'The clouds are angry' can only mean '...if one were attributing emotions to clouds' [Yablo] |
19355 | The soul doesn't understand many of its own actions, if perceptions are confused and desires buried [Leibniz] |
22371 | Determinism threatens free will if actions can be causally traced to external factors [Foot] |
19350 | We should say that body is mechanism and soul is immaterial, asserting their independence [Leibniz] |
22372 | Not all actions need motives, but it is irrational to perform troublesome actions with no motive [Foot] |
22373 | People can act out of vanity without being vain, or even vain about this kind of thing [Foot] |
19356 | Minds unconsciously count vibration beats in music, and enjoy it when they coincide [Leibniz] |