10 ideas
16210 | Humean supervenience says the world is just a vast mosaic of qualities in space-time [Lewis] |
6375 | The taste of chocolate is a 'finer-grained' sensation than the taste of sweetness [Polger] |
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] |
13304 | Learned men gain more in one day than others do in a lifetime [Posidonius] |
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] |
9426 | The world is just a vast mosaic of little matters of local particular fact [Lewis] |
20820 | Time is an interval of motion, or the measure of speed [Posidonius, by Stobaeus] |