19 ideas
2546 | Philosophy is a magnificent failure in its attempt to overstep the limits of our knowledge [McGinn] |
7548 | Classes, grouped by a convenient property, are logical constructions [Russell] |
2544 | Thoughts have a dual aspect: as they seem to introspection, and their underlying logical reality [McGinn] |
7545 | Visible things are physical and external, but only exist when viewed [Russell] |
7553 | Sense-data are purely physical [Russell] |
7549 | If my body literally lost its mind, the object seen when I see a flash would still exist [Russell] |
2539 | Mental modules for language, social, action, theory, space, emotion [McGinn] |
7546 | A man is a succession of momentary men, bound by continuity and causation [Russell] |
2545 | Free will is mental causation in action [McGinn] |
2543 | Brains aren't made of anything special, suggesting panpsychism [McGinn] |
2540 | Examining mind sees no brain; examining brain sees no mind [McGinn] |
7550 | We could probably, in principle, infer minds from brains, and brains from minds [Russell] |
2547 | There is information if there are symbols which refer, and which can combine into a truth or falsehood [McGinn] |
13304 | Learned men gain more in one day than others do in a lifetime [Posidonius] |
2542 | Causation in the material world is energy-transfer, of motion, electricity or gravity [McGinn] |
7547 | Matter requires a division into time-corpuscles as well as space-corpuscles [Russell] |
7551 | Matter is a logical construction [Russell] |
7552 | Six dimensions are needed for a particular, three within its own space, and three to locate that space [Russell] |
20820 | Time is an interval of motion, or the measure of speed [Posidonius, by Stobaeus] |