48 ideas
15105 | F(x) walked into a bar. The barman said.. [Sommers,W] |
12408 | Sartre to Waitress: Coffee with no cream, please... [Sommers,W] |
458 | Nothing could come out of nothing, and existence could never completely cease [Empedocles] |
5112 | Empedocles says things are at rest, unless love unites them, or hatred splits them [Empedocles, by Aristotle] |
12397 | Said Plato: 'The things that we feel... [Sommers,W] |
13209 | There is no coming-to-be of anything, but only mixing and separating [Empedocles, by Aristotle] |
457 | Substance is not created or destroyed in mortals, but there is only mixing and exchange [Empedocles] |
12407 | Barman to Descartes: Would you like another drink?... [Sommers,W] |
12399 | There was a young student called Fred... [Sommers,W] |
20963 | A philosopher and his wife are out for a drive... [Sommers,W] |
12404 | Dear Sir, Your astonishment's odd.... [Sommers,W] |
12403 | There once was a man who said: 'God... [Sommers,W] |
12402 | ..But if he's a student of Berkeley... [Sommers,W] |
12409 | The philosopher Berkeley once said.. [Sommers,W] |
14694 | "My dog's got synaesthesia." How does he smell? ..... [Sommers,W] |
12401 | A toper who spies in the distance... [Sommers,W] |
462 | One vision is produced by both eyes [Empedocles] |
2534 | Mindless bodies are zombies, bodiless minds are ghosts [Sturgeon] |
2537 | Types are properties, and tokens are events. Are they split between mental and physical, or not? [Sturgeon] |
2532 | Intentionality isn't reducible, because of its experiential aspect [Sturgeon] |
12410 | There once was a man who said 'Damn!... [Sommers,W] |
22765 | Wisdom and thought are shared by all things [Empedocles] |
9392 | How do behaviourists greet each other? [Sommers,W] |
2533 | Rule-following can't be reduced to the physical [Sturgeon] |
2535 | The main argument for physicalism is its simple account of causation [Sturgeon] |
1524 | For Empedocles thinking is almost identical to perception [Empedocles, by Theophrastus] |
2536 | Do facts cause thoughts, or embody them, or what? [Sturgeon] |
552 | Empedocles said good and evil were the basic principles [Empedocles, by Aristotle] |
12405 | 'If you're aristocratic,' said Nietzsche... [Sommers,W] |
9391 | Why do anarchists drink herbal tea? [Sommers,W] |
589 | 'Nature' is just a word invented by people [Empedocles] |
21823 | The principle of 'Friendship' in Empedocles is the One, and is bodiless [Empedocles, by Plotinus] |
2680 | Empedocles said that there are four material elements, and two further creative elements [Empedocles, by Aristotle] |
6002 | Empedocles says bone is water, fire and earth in ratio 2:4:2 [Empedocles, by Inwood] |
13207 | Fire, Water, Air and Earth are elements, being simple as well as homoeomerous [Empedocles, by Aristotle] |
459 | All change is unity through love or division through hate [Empedocles] |
13218 | The elements combine in coming-to-be, but how do the elements themselves come-to-be? [Aristotle on Empedocles] |
13225 | Love and Strife only explain movement if their effects are distinctive [Aristotle on Empedocles] |
460 | If the one Being ever diminishes it would no longer exist, and what could ever increase it? [Empedocles] |
12400 | Cries the maid: 'You must marry me Hume!'... [Sommers,W] |
16527 | Causation - we all thought we knew it/ Till Hume came along and saw through it/…. [Sommers,W] |
17592 | The barman called 'Time!', and Augustine said..... [Sommers,W] |
15208 | The past, present and future walked into a bar.... [Sommers,W] |
5090 | Maybe bodies are designed by accident, and the creatures that don't work are destroyed [Empedocles, by Aristotle] |
461 | God is a pure, solitary, and eternal sphere [Empedocles] |
466 | God is pure mind permeating the universe [Empedocles] |
1719 | In Empedocles' theory God is ignorant because, unlike humans, he doesn't know one of the elements (strife) [Aristotle on Empedocles] |
1522 | It is wretched not to want to think clearly about the gods [Empedocles] |