12 ideas
| 291 | Don't assume that wisdom is the automatic consequence of old age [Plato] |
| 10735 | Abstraction from objects won't reveal an operation's being performed 'so many times' [Geach] |
| 3286 | An organism is conscious if and only if there is something it is like to be that organism [Nagel] |
| 10732 | If concepts are just recognitional, then general judgements would be impossible [Geach] |
| 3288 | Can we describe our experiences to zombies? [Nagel] |
| 4883 | Nagel's title creates an impenetrable mystery, by ignoring a bat's ways that may not be "like" anything [Dennett on Nagel] |
| 3287 | We can't be objective about experience [Nagel] |
| 4989 | Physicalism should explain how subjective experience is possible, but not 'what it is like' [Kirk,R on Nagel] |
| 10731 | For abstractionists, concepts are capacities to recognise recurrent features of the world [Geach] |
| 10733 | The abstractionist cannot explain 'some' and 'not' [Geach] |
| 10734 | Only a judgement can distinguish 'striking' from 'being struck' [Geach] |
| 293 | Being unafraid (perhaps through ignorance) and being brave are two different things [Plato] |