11 ideas
579 | Cratylus said you couldn't even step into the same river once [Cratylus, by Aristotle] |
21227 | The Cogito demands a bridge to the world, and ends in isolating the ego [Velarde-Mayol] |
6375 | The taste of chocolate is a 'finer-grained' sensation than the taste of sweetness [Polger] |
21215 | The representation may not be a likeness [Velarde-Mayol] |
578 | Cratylus decided speech was hopeless, and his only expression was the movement of a finger [Cratylus, by Aristotle] |
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] |
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] |
21219 | Find the essence by varying an object, to see what remains invariable [Velarde-Mayol] |