16 ideas
9327 | Organisms understand their worlds better if they understand themselves [Gulick] |
11970 | Logicians like their entities to exhibit a maximum degree of purity [Kaplan] |
11969 | Models nicely separate particulars from their clothing, and logicians often accept that metaphysically [Kaplan] |
11971 | The simplest solution to transworld identification is to adopt bare particulars [Kaplan] |
11973 | Unusual people may have no counterparts, or several [Kaplan] |
11972 | Essence is a transworld heir line, rather than a collection of properties [Kaplan] |
9325 | In contrast with knowledge, the notion of understanding emphasizes practical engagement [Gulick] |
9326 | Knowing-that is a much richer kind of knowing-how [Gulick] |
7458 | The reliability of witnesses depends on whether they benefit from their observations [Laplace, by Hacking] |
9319 | Is consciousness a type of self-awareness, or is being self-aware a way of being conscious? [Gulick] |
9320 | Higher-order theories divide over whether the higher level involves thought or perception [Gulick] |
9321 | Higher-order models reduce the problem of consciousness to intentionality [Gulick] |
9322 | Maybe qualia only exist at the lower level, and a higher-level is needed for what-it-is-like [Gulick] |
3441 | If a supreme intellect knew all atoms and movements, it could know all of the past and the future [Laplace] |
11967 | Sentences might have the same sense when logically equivalent - or never have the same sense [Kaplan] |
9324 | From the teleopragmatic perspective, life is largely an informational process [Gulick] |