44 ideas
| 18290 | But what is the reasoning of the body, that it requires the wisdom you seek? [Nietzsche] |
| 18303 | Reject wisdom that lacks laughter [Nietzsche] |
| 16943 | Philosophy is continuous with science, and has no external vantage point [Quine] |
| 18305 | To love truth, you must know how to lie [Nietzsche] |
| 16949 | Klein summarised geometry as grouped together by transformations [Quine] |
| 16939 | Mass terms just concern spread, but other terms involve both spread and individuation [Quine] |
| 16948 | Once we know the mechanism of a disposition, we can eliminate 'similarity' [Quine] |
| 16945 | We judge things to be soluble if they are the same kind as, or similar to, things that do dissolve [Quine] |
| 16944 | Science is common sense, with a sophisticated method [Quine] |
| 16941 | Induction relies on similar effects following from each cause [Quine] |
| 16940 | Induction is just more of the same: animal expectations [Quine] |
| 16933 | Grue is a puzzle because the notions of similarity and kind are dubious in science [Quine] |
| 16934 | General terms depend on similarities among things [Quine] |
| 16938 | To learn yellow by observation, must we be told to look at the colour? [Quine] |
| 16947 | Similarity is just interchangeability in the cosmic machine [Quine] |
| 8486 | Standards of similarity are innate, and the spacing of qualities such as colours can be mapped [Quine] |
| 20757 | The powerful self behind your thoughts and feelings is your body [Nietzsche] |
| 18289 | Forget the word 'I'; 'I' is performed by the intelligence of your body [Nietzsche] |
| 16932 | Projectible predicates can be universalised about the kind to which they refer [Quine] |
| 18299 | The will is constantly frustrated by the past [Nietzsche] |
| 18297 | We created meanings, to maintain ourselves [Nietzsche] |
| 18293 | The noble man wants new virtues; the good man preserves what is old [Nietzsche] |
| 18301 | We only really love children and work [Nietzsche] |
| 18307 | I want my work, not happiness! [Nietzsche] |
| 18291 | Virtues can destroy one another, through jealousy [Nietzsche] |
| 18287 | People now find both wealth and poverty too much of a burden [Nietzsche] |
| 18295 | If you want friends, you must be a fighter [Nietzsche] |
| 18286 | The greatest experience possible is contempt for your own happiness, reason and virtue [Nietzsche] |
| 18296 | An enduring people needs its own individual values [Nietzsche] |
| 18294 | The state coldly claims that it is the people, but that is a lie [Nietzsche] |
| 18304 | Saints want to live as they desire, or not to live at all [Nietzsche] |
| 18300 | Whenever we have seen suffering, we have wanted the revenge of punishment [Nietzsche] |
| 18302 | Man and woman are deeply strange to one another! [Nietzsche] |
| 1748 | Archelaus was the first person to say that the universe is boundless [Archelaus, by Diog. Laertius] |
| 7375 | Quine probably regrets natural kinds now being treated as essences [Quine, by Dennett] |
| 16935 | If similarity has no degrees, kinds cannot be contained within one another [Quine] |
| 16936 | Comparative similarity allows the kind 'colored' to contain the kind 'red' [Quine] |
| 16937 | You can't base kinds just on resemblance, because chains of resemblance are a muddle [Quine] |
| 16942 | It is hard to see how regularities could be explained [Quine] |
| 5989 | Archelaus said life began in a primeval slime [Archelaus, by Schofield] |
| 18292 | I can only believe in a God who can dance [Nietzsche] |
| 18298 | Not being a god is insupportable, so there are no gods! [Nietzsche] |
| 18288 | Heaven was invented by the sick and the dying [Nietzsche] |
| 18306 | We don't want heaven; now that we are men, we want the kingdom of earth [Nietzsche] |