11 ideas
22115 | Wise people should contemplate and discuss the truth, and fight against falsehood [Aquinas] |
6859 | Analytic philosophy has much higher standards of thinking than continental philosophy [Williamson] |
6862 | Fuzzy logic uses a continuum of truth, but it implies contradictions [Williamson] |
6858 | Formal logic struck me as exactly the language I wanted to think in [Williamson] |
6863 | Close to conceptual boundaries judgement is too unreliable to give knowledge [Williamson] |
6861 | What sort of logic is needed for vague concepts, and what sort of concept of truth? [Williamson] |
6860 | How can one discriminate yellow from red, but not the colours in between? [Williamson] |
20700 | Without God's influence every operation would stop, so God causes everything [Aquinas] |
1748 | Archelaus was the first person to say that the universe is boundless [Archelaus, by Diog. Laertius] |
15202 | Eternity coexists with passing time, as the centre of a circle coexists with its circumference [Aquinas] |
5989 | Archelaus said life began in a primeval slime [Archelaus, by Schofield] |