14 ideas
| 21962 | Metaphysics is the roots of the tree of science [Descartes] |
| 3659 | I know the truth that God exists and is the author of truth [Descartes] |
| 17505 | Using proper names properly doesn't involve necessary and sufficient conditions [Putnam] |
| 11908 | Putnam bases essences on 'same kind', but same kinds may not share properties [Mackie,P on Putnam] |
| 3657 | Understanding, not the senses, gives certainty [Descartes] |
| 17508 | Science aims at truth, not at 'simplicity' [Putnam] |
| 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] |
| 23950 | Freud said passions are pressures of some flowing hydraulic quantity [Freud, by Solomon] |
| 17506 | I now think reference by the tests of experts is a special case of being causally connected [Putnam] |
| 22344 | Freud is pessimistic about human nature; it is ambivalent motive and fantasy, rather than reason [Freud, by Murdoch] |
| 17507 | Natural kind stereotypes are 'strong' (obvious, like tiger) or 'weak' (obscure, like molybdenum) [Putnam] |
| 11904 | Express natural kinds as a posteriori predicate connections, not as singular terms [Putnam, by Mackie,P] |
| 3660 | Atheism arises from empiricism, because God is intangible [Descartes] |