18 ideas
6007 | If you know your father, but don't recognise your father veiled, you know and don't know the same person [Eubulides, by Dancy,R] |
6006 | If you say truly that you are lying, you are lying [Eubulides, by Dancy,R] |
6008 | Removing one grain doesn't destroy a heap, so a heap can't be destroyed [Eubulides, by Dancy,R] |
6375 | The taste of chocolate is a 'finer-grained' sensation than the taste of sweetness [Polger] |
7647 | The imagination alone perceives all objects; it is the soul, playing all its roles [La Mettrie] |
6381 | The mind and the self are one, and the mind-self is a biological phenomenon [Polger] |
7645 | When falling asleep, the soul becomes paralysed and weak, just like the body [La Mettrie] |
23225 | The soul's faculties depend on the brain, and are simply the brain's organisation [La Mettrie] |
6378 | Teleological functions explain why a trait exists; causal-role functions say what it does [Polger] |
7652 | Man is a machine, and there exists only one substance, diversely modified [La Mettrie] |
6380 | Identity theory says consciousness is an abstraction: a state, event, process or property [Polger] |
7650 | All thought is feeling, and rationality is the sensitive soul contemplating reasoning [La Mettrie] |
7651 | With wonderful new machines being made, a speaking machine no longer seems impossible [La Mettrie] |
7648 | The sun and rain weren't made for us; they sometimes burn us, or spoil our seeds [La Mettrie] |
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] |
7646 | There is no abrupt transition from man to animal; only language has opened a gap [La Mettrie] |
7649 | There is no clear idea of the soul, which should only refer to our thinking part [La Mettrie] |