20 ideas
14001 | People who use science to make philosophical points don't realise how philosophical science is [Markosian] |
13991 | Presentism has the problem that if Socrates ceases to exist, so do propositions about him [Markosian] |
14002 | Possible worlds must be abstract, because two qualitatively identical worlds are just one world [Markosian] |
14000 | 'Grabby' truth conditions first select their object, unlike 'searchy' truth conditions [Markosian] |
22971 | In moving from capitalism to communism a revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat is needed [Marx] |
22969 | People who only have their labour power are the slaves of those permitting them to work [Marx] |
22970 | Freedom is making the state subordinate to its society [Marx] |
22000 | From each according to his ability, to each according to his need [Marx] |
22972 | Bourgeois 'freedom of conscience' just tolerates all sorts of religious intolerance [Marx] |
1748 | Archelaus was the first person to say that the universe is boundless [Archelaus, by Diog. Laertius] |
13990 | Presentism is the view that only present objects exist [Markosian] |
13992 | Presentism says if objects don't exist now, we can't have attitudes to them or relations with them [Markosian] |
13994 | Presentism seems to entail that we cannot talk about other times [Markosian] |
13995 | Serious Presentism says things must exist to have relations and properties; Unrestricted version denies this [Markosian] |
13996 | Maybe Presentists can refer to the haecceity of a thing, after the thing itself disappears [Markosian] |
13997 | Maybe Presentists can paraphrase singular propositions about the past [Markosian] |
13993 | Special Relativity denies the absolute present which Presentism needs [Markosian] |
13998 | Objects in the past, like Socrates, are more like imaginary objects than like remote spatial objects [Markosian] |
13999 | People are mistaken when they think 'Socrates was a philosopher' says something [Markosian] |
5989 | Archelaus said life began in a primeval slime [Archelaus, by Schofield] |