26 ideas
1597 | Thales was the first western thinker to believe the arché was intelligible [Roochnik on Thales] |
17311 | Real definitions don't just single out a thing; they must also explain its essence [Koslicki] |
5331 | You can't infer that because you have a hidden birth-mark, everybody else does [Ayer] |
17312 | It is more explanatory if you show how a number is constructed from basic entities and relations [Koslicki] |
17314 | The relata of grounding are propositions or facts, but for dependence it is objects and their features [Koslicki] |
2611 | It is currently held that quantifying over something implies belief in its existence [Ayer] |
17313 | Modern views want essences just to individuate things across worlds and times [Koslicki] |
16520 | We see properties necessary for a kind (in the definition), but not for an individual [Ayer] |
17309 | For Fine, essences are propositions true because of identity, so they are just real definitions [Koslicki] |
17315 | We need a less propositional view of essence, and so must distinguish it clearly from real definitions [Koslicki] |
3013 | Nothing is stronger than necessity, which rules everything [Thales, by Diog. Laertius] |
17317 | A good explanation captures the real-world dependence among the phenomena [Koslicki] |
2613 | The theory of other minds has no rival [Ayer] |
5328 | Originally I combined a mentalistic view of introspection with a behaviouristic view of other minds [Ayer] |
5330 | Physicalism undercuts the other mind problem, by equating experience with 'public' brain events [Ayer] |
5325 | Is something an 'experience' because it relates to other experiences, or because it relates to a subject? [Ayer] |
5326 | Qualia must be united by a subject, because they lead to concepts and judgements [Ayer] |
5324 | Bodily identity and memory work together to establish personal identity [Ayer] |
5322 | Self-consciousness is not basic, because experiences are not instrinsically marked with ownership [Ayer] |
5327 | Temporal gaps in the consciousness of a spirit could not be bridged by memories [Ayer] |
5329 | Why shouldn't we say brain depends on mind? Better explanation! [Ayer] |
17316 | We can abstract to a dependent entity by blocking out features of its bearer [Koslicki] |
2610 | Talk of propositions is just shorthand for talking about equivalent sentences [Ayer] |
1494 | Thales said water is the first principle, perhaps from observing that food is moist [Thales, by Aristotle] |
1713 | Thales must have thought soul causes movement, since he thought magnets have soul [Thales, by Aristotle] |
1742 | Thales said the gods know our wrong thoughts as well as our evil actions [Thales, by Diog. Laertius] |