14 ideas
23269 | Philosophy must start from clearly observed facts [Galen] |
21552 | Common speech is vague; its vocabulary and syntax must be modified, for precision [Russell] |
21551 | Empirical words need ostensive definition, which makes them egocentric [Russell] |
23266 | The spirit in the soul wants freedom, power and honour [Galen] |
23219 | Stopping the heart doesn't terminate activity; pressing the brain does that [Galen, by Cobb] |
3488 | Freud treats the unconscious as intentional and hence mental [Freud, by Searle] |
23264 | Philosophers think faculties are in substances, and invent a faculty for every activity [Galen] |
5689 | Freud and others have shown that we don't know our own beliefs, feelings, motive and attitudes [Freud, by Shoemaker] |
23220 | The brain contains memory and reason, and is the source of sensation and decision [Galen] |
23950 | Freud said passions are pressures of some flowing hydraulic quantity [Freud, by Solomon] |
23265 | The rational part of the soul is the desire for truth, understanding and recollection [Galen] |
21550 | Science reduces indexicals to a minimum, but they can never be eliminated from empirical matters [Russell] |
22344 | Freud is pessimistic about human nature; it is ambivalent motive and fantasy, rather than reason [Freud, by Murdoch] |
23268 | We execute irredeemable people, to protect ourselves, as a deterrent, and ending a bad life [Galen] |