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Extreme Dualist (sect. 1)
Many extreme dualist are religious but do not believe in God. (i.e. reincarnation as an example).
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Dualistic Interaction (sect. 1)
The metaphysics of death as an event in life.
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Hume:
I look inward but never stumble upon myself". insightful, but sloppy
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Generic dualist (sect. 1)
A wedge between physical and mental.
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Extreme Dualism vs. Moderate Dualism (sect. 1)
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Difference between mental and physical (sect. 1)
If physical passes, mental could still exist.
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Materialist (sect 2)
States of consciousness are identical to brain states.
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Extreme Materialist vs. Moderate Materialist (sect. 2)
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Qualia (sect. 2)
Inner sensations (sounds, smells, sights, tastes, touching)
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A person could know what God is like. . . . (sect. 2)
but could never know what it is like to be God.
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Behaviorees (??)(sect. 2)
- "Smith believes there is a fire near by."
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- "Smith has relation "B" to "there is a fire nearly as a sentence in English". -self refuting
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Sect. 1 and 2 problem is . . . .(sect. 3)
they are a Pseudo - problem.
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Logical Positivism (sect. 3)
- Meaning = truth value
- -Impurest
- -meaning I view or pro-positive life is meaningful by said experiences.
- 1. No one living today will be alive tomorrow.
- 2. I will survive bodily death.
- *Verification theory
- *Falsifiability of meaning: Falsified vs. Verified.
- 3. Some persons are not immortal.
- 4. Every person has his or hear price.
- -R.B. Bratway
- meaningless is the positivist.
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Extreme Dualism (sect. 4)
- Disembodied minds
- - H.H.Price is a theist, appears to be a socialist.
- Coherent to be plausible to be correct.
- *Mental images - neologisms
- *Idioplasmic
- *Imagery: either other worlds exist (with each other) but not our own current place.
- * Next world is a state of mind.
- *Moral of the new world are brought from old world & desire world form it to the way you went out (?)
- *Karma, personality stays.
- *No moral growth
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Paul Evens (sect. 4)
- Moderate materialist.
- deflationary creteg --> ontonlogical explorers
- - deflate them
- - he thinks they are looking for what death looks like from the dead.
- "Mysteria of death" = fake
- We know why most people die.
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