38 ideas
18450 | Philosophy has its own mode of death, by separating soul from body [Porphyry] |
6161 | Structuralism is neo-Kantian idealism, with language playing the role of categories of understanding [Rowlands] |
6163 | If bivalence is rejected, then excluded middle must also be rejected [Rowlands] |
6155 | Supervenience is a one-way relation of dependence or determination between properties [Rowlands] |
18451 | The presence of the incorporeal is only known by certain kinds of disposition [Porphyry] |
18459 | Diversity arises from the power of unity [Porphyry] |
6154 | It is argued that wholes possess modal and counterfactual properties that parts lack [Rowlands] |
6157 | Tokens are dated, concrete particulars; types are their general properties or kinds [Rowlands] |
6159 | Strong idealism is the sort of mess produced by a Cartesian separation of mind and world [Rowlands] |
18452 | Memory is not conserved images, but reproduction of previous thought [Porphyry] |
19699 | A Gettier case is a belief which is true, and its fallible justification involves some luck [Hetherington] |
18453 | Intelligence is aware of itself, so the intelligence is both the thinker and the thought [Porphyry] |
6152 | Minds are rational, conscious, subjective, self-knowing, free, meaningful and self-aware [Rowlands] |
18462 | The soul is everywhere and nowhere in the body, and must be its cause [Porphyry] |
6173 | Content externalism implies that we do not have privileged access to our own minds [Rowlands] |
6174 | If someone is secretly transported to Twin Earth, others know their thoughts better than they do [Rowlands] |
18463 | Successful introspection reveals the substrate along with the object of thought [Porphyry] |
18458 | The soul is bound to matter by the force of its own disposition [Porphyry] |
6158 | Supervenience of mental and physical properties often comes with token-identity of mental and physical particulars [Rowlands] |
6168 | The content of a thought is just the meaning of a sentence [Rowlands] |
6167 | Action is bodily movement caused by intentional states [Rowlands] |
6177 | Moral intuition seems unevenly distributed between people [Rowlands] |
18464 | Justice is each person fulfilling his function [Porphyry] |
18448 | We should avoid the pleasures of love, or at least, should not enact our dreams [Porphyry] |
18444 | Civil virtues make us behave benevolently, and thereby unite citizens [Porphyry] |
18445 | Civil virtues control the passions, and make us conform to our nature [Porphyry] |
18446 | Purificatory virtues detach the soul completely from the passions [Porphyry] |
18447 | There are practical, purificatory, contemplative, and exemplary virtues [Porphyry] |
18456 | Unified real existence is neither great nor small, though greatness and smallness participate in it [Porphyry] |
6156 | The 17th century reintroduced atoms as mathematical modes of Euclidean space [Rowlands] |
6170 | Natural kinds are defined by their real essence, as in gold having atomic number 79 [Rowlands] |
18454 | Time is the circular movement of the soul [Porphyry] |
18455 | Some think time is seen at rest, as well as in movement [Porphyry] |
6178 | It is common to see the value of nature in one feature, such as life, diversity, or integrity [Rowlands] |
18460 | God is nowhere, and hence everywhere [Porphyry] |
18461 | Everything existing proceeds from divinity, and is within divinity [Porphyry] |
18449 | Nature binds or detaches body to soul, but soul itself joins and detaches soul from body [Porphyry] |
18457 | Individual souls are all connected, though distinct, and without dividing universal Soul [Porphyry] |