10 ideas
20350 | Metaphysics generalises the data, to get at the ontology [Richardson] |
20349 | Metaphysics aims at the essence of things, and a system to show how this explains other truths [Richardson] |
20351 | Metaphysics needs systems, because analysis just obsesses over details [Richardson] |
7518 | If folk psychology gives a network of causal laws, that fits neatly with functionalism [Churchland,PM] |
7520 | Folk psychology never makes any progress, and is marginalised by modern science [Churchland,PM] |
7519 | Many mental phenomena are totally unexplained by folk psychology [Churchland,PM] |
20356 | Humans dominate because, unlike other animals, they have a synthesis of conflicting drives [Richardson] |
13304 | Learned men gain more in one day than others do in a lifetime [Posidonius] |
20366 | A mind that could see cause and effect as a continuum would deny cause and effect [Richardson] |
20820 | Time is an interval of motion, or the measure of speed [Posidonius, by Stobaeus] |