10 ideas
21829 | Philosophy aims to understand how things (broadly understood) hang together (broadly understood) [Sellars] |
6855 | Interesting philosophers hardly every give you explicitly valid arguments [Martin,M] |
6856 | Valid arguments can be rejected by challenging the premises or presuppositions [Martin,M] |
6550 | Reduction requires that an object's properties consist of its constituents' properties and relations [Sellars] |
6857 | An error theory of perception says our experience is not as it seems to be [Martin,M] |
8793 | If observation is knowledge, it is not just an experience; it is a justification in the space of reasons [Sellars] |
8792 | Observations like 'this is green' presuppose truths about what is a reliable symptom of what [Sellars] |
3061 | Anaxarchus said that he was not even sure that he knew nothing [Anaxarchus, by Diog. Laertius] |
6382 | The 'grain problem' says physical objects are granular, where sensations appear not to be [Sellars, by Polger] |
8791 | The concept of 'green' involves a battery of other concepts [Sellars] |