16 ideas
2546 | Philosophy is a magnificent failure in its attempt to overstep the limits of our knowledge [McGinn] |
2544 | Thoughts have a dual aspect: as they seem to introspection, and their underlying logical reality [McGinn] |
18969 | How do you distinguish three beliefs from four beliefs or two beliefs? [Quine] |
3488 | Freud treats the unconscious as intentional and hence mental [Freud, by Searle] |
2539 | Mental modules for language, social, action, theory, space, emotion [McGinn] |
5689 | Freud and others have shown that we don't know our own beliefs, feelings, motive and attitudes [Freud, by Shoemaker] |
2545 | Free will is mental causation in action [McGinn] |
2543 | Brains aren't made of anything special, suggesting panpsychism [McGinn] |
2540 | Examining mind sees no brain; examining brain sees no mind [McGinn] |
23950 | Freud said passions are pressures of some flowing hydraulic quantity [Freud, by Solomon] |
2547 | There is information if there are symbols which refer, and which can combine into a truth or falsehood [McGinn] |
18967 | A 'proposition' is said to be the timeless cognitive part of the meaning of a sentence [Quine] |
18968 | The problem with propositions is their individuation. When do two sentences express one proposition? [Quine] |
22344 | Freud is pessimistic about human nature; it is ambivalent motive and fantasy, rather than reason [Freud, by Murdoch] |
2542 | Causation in the material world is energy-transfer, of motion, electricity or gravity [McGinn] |
18970 | The concept of a 'point' makes no sense without the idea of absolute position [Quine] |