11 ideas
21560 | Any linguistic expression may lack meaning when taken out of context [Russell] |
21561 | 'The number one is bald' or 'the number one is fond of cream cheese' are meaningless [Russell] |
18130 | Axiom of Reducibility: there is always a function of the lowest possible order in a given level [Russell, by Bostock] |
5500 | Biologists see many organic levels, 'abstract' if seen from below, 'structural' if seen from above [Lycan] |
21562 | There is no complexity without relations, so no propositions, and no truth [Russell] |
5494 | 'Lightning is electric discharge' and 'Phosphorus is Venus' are synthetic a posteriori identities [Lycan] |
5496 | Functionalism has three linked levels: physical, functional, and mental [Lycan] |
5499 | A mental state is a functional realisation of a brain state when it serves the purpose of the organism [Lycan] |
13304 | Learned men gain more in one day than others do in a lifetime [Posidonius] |
5501 | People are trying to explain biological teleology in naturalistic causal terms [Lycan] |
20820 | Time is an interval of motion, or the measure of speed [Posidonius, by Stobaeus] |