11 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] |
3488 | Freud treats the unconscious as intentional and hence mental [Freud, by Searle] |
5689 | Freud and others have shown that we don't know our own beliefs, feelings, motive and attitudes [Freud, by Shoemaker] |
5504 | Maybe we should see persons in four dimensions, with stages or time-slices at an instant [Martin/Barresi] |
5503 | Maybe personal identity is not vital in survival, and other continuations would suffice [Martin/Barresi] |
5502 | Locke's intrinsic view of personal identity has been replaced by an externalist view [Martin/Barresi] |
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] |
5505 | For Aristotle the psyche perishes with the body (except possibly 'nous') [Martin/Barresi] |