26 ideas
19574 | If man sacrifices truth he sacrifices himself, by acting against his own convictions [Novalis] |
4901 | Truth has to be correspondence to facts, and a match between relations of ideas and relations in the world [Perry] |
19571 | Delusion and truth differ in their life functions [Novalis] |
19575 | Refinement of senses increasingly distinguishes individuals [Novalis] |
4885 | Identity is a very weak relation, which doesn't require interdefinability, or shared properties [Perry] |
4899 | Possible worlds thinking has clarified the logic of modality, but is problematic in epistemology [Perry] |
4898 | Possible worlds are indices for a language, or concrete realities, or abstract possibilities [Perry] |
19572 | Experiences tests reason, and reason tests experience [Novalis] |
4887 | We try to cause other things to occur by causing mental events to occur [Perry] |
4884 | Brain states must be in my head, and yet the pain seems to be in my hand [Perry] |
4888 | It seems plausible that many animals have experiences without knowing about them [Perry] |
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] |
4891 | If epiphenomenalism just says mental events are effects but not causes, it is consistent with physicalism [Perry] |
19573 | The seat of the soul is where our inner and outer worlds interpenetrate [Novalis] |
4900 | Prior to Kripke, the mind-brain identity theory usually claimed that the identity was contingent [Perry] |
4892 | If physicalists stick with identity (not supervenience), Martian pain will not be like ours [Perry] |
23950 | Freud said passions are pressures of some flowing hydraulic quantity [Freud, by Solomon] |
4889 | Although we may classify ideas by content, we individuate them differently, as their content can change [Perry] |
4896 | The intension of an expression is a function from possible worlds to an appropriate extension [Perry] |
19577 | Everything is a chaotic unity, then we abstract, then we reunify the world into a free alliance [Novalis] |
4897 | A proposition is a set of possible worlds for which its intension delivers truth [Perry] |
4890 | A sharp analytic/synthetic line can rarely be drawn, but some concepts are central to thought [Perry] |
19578 | Only self-illuminated perfect individuals are beautiful [Novalis] |
22344 | Freud is pessimistic about human nature; it is ambivalent motive and fantasy, rather than reason [Freud, by Murdoch] |
19576 | Religion needs an intermediary, because none of us can connect directly to a godhead [Novalis] |