Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'works', 'The Mental Life of Some Machines' and 'Philosophical Fragments'

expand these ideas     |    start again     |     specify just one area for these texts

---

5 ideas

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 5. Reason for Existence

16007

I assume existence, rather than reasoning towards it [Kierkegaard]

10. Modality / A. Necessity / 2. Nature of Necessity

16013

Nothing necessary can come into existence, since it already 'is' [Kierkegaard]

17. Mind and Body / C. Functionalism / 2. Machine Functionalism

5495	Instances of pain are physical tokens, but the nature of pain is more abstract [Putnam, by Lycan]

29. Religion / B. Monotheistic Religion / 4. Christianity / d. Heresy

16713

Philosophers are the forefathers of heretics [Tertullian]

29. Religion / D. Religious Issues / 1. Religious Commitment / e. Fideism

6610	I believe because it is absurd [Tertullian]