Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'An Argument for the Identity Theory' and 'Replies to Critics'

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4 ideas

3. Truth / C. Correspondence Truth / 1. Correspondence Truth

18702

Names, descriptions and predicates refer to things; without that, language and thought are baffling [Davidson]

17. Mind and Body / C. Functionalism / 4. Causal Functionalism

7441	Experiences are defined by their causal role, and causal roles belong to physical states [Lewis]

7442	'Pain' contingently names the state that occupies the causal role of pain [Lewis]

23. Ethics / A. Egoism / 1. Ethical Egoism

3031	The greatest good is not the achievement of desire, but to desire what is proper [Menedemus, by Diog. Laertius]