19 ideas
291 | Don't assume that wisdom is the automatic consequence of old age [Plato] |
18005 | Philosophy aims to become more disciplined about categories [Ryle] |
18529 | Relations are expressed either as absolute facts, or by a relational concept [William of Ockham] |
14297 | A dispositional property is not a state, but a liability to be in some state, given a condition [Ryle] |
14300 | No physical scientist now believes in an occult force-exerting agency [Ryle] |
16779 | Cut wood doesn't make a new substance, but seems to make separate subjects [William of Ockham] |
16757 | Hot water naturally cools down, which is due to the substantial form of the water [William of Ockham] |
2622 | Can one movement have a mental and physical cause? [Ryle] |
9102 | If an animal approached from a distance, we might abstract 'animal' from one instance [William of Ockham] |
1353 | Reporting on myself has the same problems as reporting on you [Ryle] |
1354 | We cannot introspect states of anger or panic [Ryle] |
2624 | I cannot prepare myself for the next thought I am going to think [Ryle] |
2620 | Dualism is a category mistake [Ryle] |
2388 | Behaviour depends on desires as well as beliefs [Chalmers on Ryle] |
3354 | You can't explain mind as dispositions, if they aren't real [Benardete,JA on Ryle] |
2387 | How can behaviour be the cause of behaviour? [Chalmers on Ryle] |
9114 | There are no secure foundations to prove the separate existence of mind, in reason or experience [William of Ockham] |
293 | Being unafraid (perhaps through ignorance) and being brave are two different things [Plato] |
9115 | To love God means to love whatever God wills to be loved [William of Ockham] |