Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Chapters on Scepticism', 'Theology and Verification' and 'works'

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6 ideas

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 6. Criterion for Existence
3534 To be is to have causal powers [Alexander,S]
15. Nature of Minds / A. Nature of Mind / 4. Other Minds / b. Scepticism of other minds
1799 If we can't know minds, we can't know if Pyrrho was a sceptic [Theodosius, by Diog. Laertius]
17. Mind and Body / A. Mind-Body Dualism / 6. Epiphenomenalism
3398 Epiphenomenalism makes the mind totally pointless [Alexander,S]
29. Religion / D. Religious Issues / 1. Religious Commitment / c. Religious Verification
1470 Belief in an afterlife may be unverifiable in this life, but it will be verifiable after death [Hick, by PG]
1471 It may be hard to verify that we have become immortal, but we could still then verify religious claims [Hick, by PG]
29. Religion / D. Religious Issues / 1. Religious Commitment / d. Religious Falsification
1469 Some things (e.g. a section of the expansion of PI) can be verified but not falsified [Hick, by PG]