8 ideas
17950 | The logos enables us to track one particular among a network of objects [Nehamas] |
17951 | A logos may be short, but it contains reference to the whole domain of the object [Nehamas] |
17945 | Forms are not a theory of universals, but an attempt to explain how predication is possible [Nehamas] |
17946 | Only Tallness really is tall, and other inferior tall things merely participate in the tallness [Nehamas] |
17944 | 'Episteme' is better translated as 'understanding' than as 'knowledge' [Nehamas] |
20921 | How can we state relativism of sweet and sour, if they have no determinate nature? [Theophrastus] |
20239 | Unlike us, the early Greeks thought envy was a good thing, and hope a bad thing [Hesiod, by Nietzsche] |
5990 | Theophrastus doubted whether nature could be explained teleologically [Theophrastus, by Gottschalk] |