Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Outline of a System of Utilitarianism' and 'What is innate and why'

expand these ideas     |    start again     |     specify just one area for these texts

---

5 ideas

18. Thought / B. Mechanics of Thought / 4. Language of Thought

2605	If everything uses mentalese, ALL concepts must be innate! [Putnam]

2606	No machine language can express generalisations [Putnam]

23. Ethics / E. Utilitarianism / 1. Utilitarianism

22405

Negative utilitarianism implies that the world should be destroyed, to avoid future misery [Smart]

23. Ethics / E. Utilitarianism / 3. Motivation for Altruism

22404

Any group interested in ethics must surely have a sentiment of generalised benevolence [Smart]

27. Natural Reality / G. Biology / 1. Biology

651	Eurytus showed that numbers underlie things by making pictures of creatures out of pebbles [Eurytus, by Aristotle]