19 ideas
9271 | Human knowledge may not produce well-being; the examined life may not be worth living [Gray] |
21515 | Incoherence may be more important for enquiry than coherence [Olsson] |
21514 | Coherence is the capacity to answer objections [Olsson] |
21496 | Mere agreement of testimonies is not enough to make truth very likely [Olsson] |
21499 | Coherence is only needed if the information sources are not fully reliable [Olsson] |
21502 | A purely coherent theory cannot be true of the world without some contact with the world [Olsson] |
21512 | Extending a system makes it less probable, so extending coherence can't make it more probable [Olsson] |
9275 | Knowledge does not need minds or nervous systems; it is found in all living things [Gray] |
9276 | The will hardly ever does anything; most of our life just happens to us [Gray] |
9278 | Nowadays we identify the free life with the good life [Gray] |
9280 | Over forty percent of the Earth's living tissue is human [Gray] |
23061 | Free atheism should start by questioning its faith in humanity [Gray] |
23057 | Gnosticism has a supreme creator God, giving way to a possibly hostile Demiurge [Gray] |
23056 | Judaism only became monotheistic around 550 BCE [Gray] |
9272 | Without Christianity we lose the idea that human history has a meaning [Gray] |
9279 | What was our original sin, and how could Christ's suffering redeem it? [Gray] |
23055 | Christians introduced the idea that a religion needs a creed [Gray] |
23058 | Buddhism has no divinity or souls, and the aim is to lose the illusion of a self [Gray] |
1513 | The Egyptians were the first to say the soul is immortal and reincarnated [Herodotus] |