9 ideas
8203 | All the arithmetical entities can be reduced to classes of integers, and hence to sets [Quine] |
5500 | Biologists see many organic levels, 'abstract' if seen from below, 'structural' if seen from above [Lycan] |
5494 | 'Lightning is electric discharge' and 'Phosphorus is Venus' are synthetic a posteriori identities [Lycan] |
5496 | Functionalism has three linked levels: physical, functional, and mental [Lycan] |
5499 | A mental state is a functional realisation of a brain state when it serves the purpose of the organism [Lycan] |
8202 | Meaning is essence divorced from things and wedded to words [Quine] |
8201 | The distinction between meaning and further information is as vague as the essence/accident distinction [Quine] |
16009 | When we seek our own 'freedom' we are just trying to avoid responsibility [Kierkegaard] |
5501 | People are trying to explain biological teleology in naturalistic causal terms [Lycan] |