12 ideas
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] |
21315 | A tree remains the same in the popular sense, but not in the strict philosophical sense [Butler] |
3488 | Freud treats the unconscious as intentional and hence mental [Freud, by Searle] |
21317 | Despite consciousness fluctuating, we are aware that it belongs to one person [Butler] |
5689 | Freud and others have shown that we don't know our own beliefs, feelings, motive and attitudes [Freud, by Shoemaker] |
21313 | If consciousness of events makes our identity, then if we have forgotten them we didn't exist then [Butler] |
21314 | Consciousness presupposes personal identity, so it cannot constitute it [Butler] |
21318 | If the self changes, we have no responsibilities, and no interest in past or future [Butler] |
23950 | Freud said passions are pressures of some flowing hydraulic quantity [Freud, by Solomon] |
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] |