15 ideas
9548 | A mathematical object exists if there is no contradiction in its definition [Waterfield] |
16052 | 'Superdupervenience' is supervenience that has a robustly materialistic explanation [Horgan,T] |
16053 | 'Global' supervenience is facts tracking varying physical facts in every possible world [Horgan,T] |
16056 | Don't just observe supervenience - explain it! [Horgan,T] |
16054 | Physicalism needs more than global supervenience on the physical [Horgan,T] |
16055 | Materialism requires that physics be causally complete [Horgan,T] |
6230 | If the soul were a tabula rasa, with no innate ideas, there could be no moral goodness or justice [Cudworth] |
6228 | Senses cannot judge one another, so what judges senses cannot be a sense, but must be superior [Cudworth] |
16057 | Instrumentalism normally says some discourse is useful, but not genuinely true [Horgan,T] |
6229 | Sense is fixed in the material form, and so can't grasp abstract universals [Cudworth] |
6227 | Keeping promises and contracts is an obligation of natural justice [Cudworth] |
6225 | Obligation to obey all positive laws is older than all laws [Cudworth] |
6224 | An omnipotent will cannot make two things equal or alike if they aren't [Cudworth] |
6223 | If the will and pleasure of God controls justice, then anything wicked or unjust would become good if God commanded it [Cudworth] |
6226 | The requirement that God must be obeyed must precede any authority of God's commands [Cudworth] |