8 ideas
23647 | Objects have an essential constitution, producing its qualities, which we are too ignorant to define [Reid] |
13191 | The properties of a thing flow from its essence [Leibniz] |
11958 | Impossibilites are easily conceived in mathematics and geometry [Reid, by Molnar] |
2427 | Maybe understanding doesn't need consciousness, despite what Searle seems to think [Searle, by Chalmers] |
7389 | A program won't contain understanding if it is small enough to imagine [Dennett on Searle] |
7390 | If bigger and bigger brain parts can't understand, how can a whole brain? [Dennett on Searle] |
23646 | Reference is by name, or a term-plus-circumstance, or ostensively, or by description [Reid] |
23645 | A word's meaning is the thing conceived, as fixed by linguistic experts [Reid] |