Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Space, Time and Deity (2 vols)', 'The Realm of Matter' and 'Mad Pain and Martian Pain'

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5 ideas

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 6. Criterion for Existence
18521 The criterion of existence is the possibility of action [Santayana]
17. Mind and Body / A. Mind-Body Dualism / 6. Epiphenomenalism
14494 Epiphenomenalism is like a pointless nobleman, kept for show, but soon to be abolished [Alexander,S]
17. Mind and Body / C. Functionalism / 4. Causal Functionalism
7444 Type-type psychophysical identity is combined with a functional characterisation of pain [Lewis]
17. Mind and Body / E. Mind as Physical / 1. Physical Mind
7445 The application of 'pain' to physical states is non-rigid and contingent [Lewis]
17. Mind and Body / E. Mind as Physical / 7. Anti-Physicalism / b. Multiple realisability
7443 A theory must be mixed, to cover qualia without behaviour, and behaviour without qualia [Lewis, by PG]