Deep Dive
Dive deeper into the relationship between ideas and the reality that ideas help us handle.
Mental Events
Mental events have a dual existence, for not only are they events in their own right, they can also serve as representations of things out in the world.
By using these representations to be about specific features of the world, we become able to make mental maps of the world.
Artistic Truth
In both science and common sense, ideas are useful because of their aboutness. They explicitly point towards features of the world.
Artworks, however, don’t say anything explicit about the world. Instead, features of the artwork resonate with features of the world through an implicit similarity.
Escaping Bewitchment
The ideas in our heads are powerful and can easily bewitch us. It is ideas that give us our knowledge of the world. So it’s easy to assume that the world is made up of things that are just like the ideas that we find so powerful.
This, however, is a false assumption. The ‘ideal forms’ in our heads are actually different in kind to the ‘forms of life’ that exist out in the universe.