10 ideas
3035 | Dialectic involves conversations with short questions and brief answers [Diog. Laertius] |
18344 | Truth and falsehood must track what does or doesn't exist [Bigelow] |
12887 | A whole must have one characteristic, an internal relation, and a structure [Rescher/Oppenheim] |
1816 | Sceptics say demonstration depends on self-demonstrating things, or indemonstrable things [Diog. Laertius] |
1819 | Scepticism has two dogmas: that nothing is definable, and every argument has an opposite argument [Diog. Laertius] |
3064 | When sceptics say that nothing is definable, or all arguments have an opposite, they are being dogmatic [Diog. Laertius] |
3033 | Induction moves from some truths to similar ones, by contraries or consequents [Diog. Laertius] |
1838 | Cyrenaic pleasure is a motion, but Epicurean pleasure is a condition [Diog. Laertius] |
1769 | Cynics believe that when a man wishes for nothing he is like the gods [Diog. Laertius] |
14409 | I am a presentist, and all language and common sense supports my view [Bigelow] |