14 ideas
6806 | Do not multiply entities beyond necessity [William of Ockham] |
5500 | Biologists see many organic levels, 'abstract' if seen from below, 'structural' if seen from above [Lycan] |
15538 | Semantic indecision explains vagueness (if we have precisifications to be undecided about) [Lewis] |
22132 | Species and genera are individual concepts which naturally signify many individuals [William of Ockham] |
15537 | If cats are vague, we deny that the many cats are one, or deny that the one cat is many [Lewis] |
15536 | We have one cloud, but many possible boundaries and aggregates for it [Lewis] |
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] |
15539 | Basic to pragmatics is taking a message in a way that makes sense of it [Lewis] |
5501 | People are trying to explain biological teleology in naturalistic causal terms [Lycan] |
19381 | The past has ceased to exist, and the future does not yet exist, so time does not exist [William of Ockham] |
8010 | William of Ockham is the main spokesman for God's commands being the source of morality [William of Ockham] |
16679 | Even an angel must have some location [William of Ockham, by Pasnau] |