10 ideas
6375 | The taste of chocolate is a 'finer-grained' sensation than the taste of sweetness [Polger] |
20921 | How can we state relativism of sweet and sour, if they have no determinate nature? [Theophrastus] |
6027 | From the fact that some men die, we cannot infer that they all do [Philodemus] |
6381 | The mind and the self are one, and the mind-self is a biological phenomenon [Polger] |
6378 | Teleological functions explain why a trait exists; causal-role functions say what it does [Polger] |
6380 | Identity theory says consciousness is an abstraction: a state, event, process or property [Polger] |
22241 | Don't fear god or worry about death; the good is easily got and the terrible easily cured [Philodemus] |
5990 | Theophrastus doubted whether nature could be explained teleologically [Theophrastus, by Gottschalk] |
6379 | A mummified heart has the teleological function of circulating blood [Polger] |
6377 | Teleological notions of function say what a thing is supposed to do [Polger] |