18 ideas
13407 | All worthwhile philosophy is synthetic theorizing, evaluated by experience [Papineau] |
13409 | Our best theories may commit us to mathematical abstracta, but that doesn't justify the commitment [Papineau] |
20189 | Belief is a feeling, independent of the will, which arises from uncontrolled and unknown causes [Hume] |
13406 | A priori knowledge is analytic - the structure of our concepts - and hence unimportant [Papineau] |
21309 | A proposition cannot be intelligible or consistent, if the perceptions are not so [Hume] |
13408 | Intuition and thought-experiments embody substantial information about the world [Papineau] |
15755 | Hume needs a notion which includes degrees of resemblance [Shoemaker on Hume] |
5323 | Experiences are logically separate, but factually linked by simultaneity or a feeling of continuousness [Ayer on Hume] |
21311 | Are self and substance the same? Then how can self remain if substance changes? [Hume] |
21312 | Perceptions are distinct, so no connection between them can ever be discovered [Hume] |
21308 | We have no impression of the self, and we therefore have no idea of it [Hume] |
21310 | Does an oyster with one perception have a self? Would lots of perceptions change that? [Hume] |
13410 | Verificationism about concepts means you can't deny a theory, because you can't have the concept [Papineau] |
23115 | We have no natural love of mankind, other than through various relationships [Hume] |
13304 | Learned men gain more in one day than others do in a lifetime [Posidonius] |
16946 | Causation is just invariance, as long as it is described in general terms [Quine on Hume] |
15250 | If impressions, memories and ideas only differ in vivacity, nothing says it is memory, or repetition [Whitehead on Hume] |
20820 | Time is an interval of motion, or the measure of speed [Posidonius, by Stobaeus] |