59 ideas
14888 | Wisdom prevents us from being ruled by the moment [Nietzsche] |
14863 | Unlike science, true wisdom involves good taste [Nietzsche] |
14890 | Suffering is the meaning of existence [Nietzsche] |
7910 | Pursue truth with the urgency of someone whose clothes are on fire [Ashvaghosha] |
14861 | Philosophy ennobles the world, by producing an artistic conception of our knowledge [Nietzsche] |
14885 | The first aim of a philosopher is a life, not some works [Nietzsche] |
14887 | You should only develop a philosophy if you are willing to live by it [Nietzsche] |
14889 | Philosophy is pointless if it does not advocate, and live, a new way of life [Nietzsche] |
14862 | Philosophy is more valuable than much of science, because of its beauty [Nietzsche] |
14876 | Philosophy is always secondary, because it cannot support a popular culture [Nietzsche] |
14878 | It would better if there was no thought [Nietzsche] |
14881 | Why do people want philosophers? [Nietzsche] |
14860 | Kant has undermined our belief in metaphysics [Nietzsche] |
14859 | If philosophy controls science, then it has to determine its scope, and its value [Nietzsche] |
14880 | Logic is just slavery to language [Nietzsche] |
14869 | If some sort of experience is at the root of matter, then human knowledge is close to its essence [Nietzsche] |
2730 | Because 'gold is malleable' is necessary does not mean that it is analytic [Audi,R] |
14875 | Belief matters more than knowledge, and only begins when knowledge ceases [Nietzsche] |
2715 | Beliefs are based on perception, memory, introspection or reason [Audi,R] |
2735 | Could you have a single belief on its own? [Audi,R] |
2736 | We can make certain of what we know, so knowing does not entail certainty [Audi,R] |
14866 | It always remains possible that the world just is the way it appears [Nietzsche] |
2721 | If you gradually remove a book's sensory properties, what is left at the end? [Audi,R] |
2722 | Sense-data theory is indirect realism, but phenomenalism is direct irrealism [Audi,R] |
2727 | Red and green being exclusive colours seems to be rationally graspable but not analytic [Audi,R] |
2728 | The concepts needed for a priori thought may come from experience [Audi,R] |
2717 | How could I see a field and believe nothing regarding it? [Audi,R] |
2716 | To see something as a field, I obviously need the concept of a field [Audi,R] |
2719 | Sense data imply representative realism, possibly only representing primary qualities [Audi,R] |
2720 | Sense-data (and the rival 'adverbial' theory) are to explain illusions and hallucinations [Audi,R] |
2718 | Perception is first simple, then objectual (with concepts) and then propositional [Audi,R] |
2741 | The principles of justification have to be a priori [Audi,R] |
2729 | Virtually all rationalists assert that we can have knowledge of synthetic a priori truths [Audi,R] |
2725 | To remember something is to know it [Audi,R] |
2724 | I might remember someone I can't recall or image, by recognising them on meeting [Audi,R] |
2731 | Justification is either unanchored (infinite or circular), or anchored (in knowledge or non-knowledge) [Audi,R] |
2739 | Internalism about justification implies that there is a right to believe something [Audi,R] |
2732 | Maths may be consistent with observations, but not coherent [Audi,R] |
2733 | It is very hard to show how much coherence is needed for justification [Audi,R] |
2734 | A consistent madman could have a very coherent belief system [Audi,R] |
2738 | Consistent accurate prediction looks like knowledge without justified belief [Audi,R] |
2740 | A reliability theory of knowledge seems to involve truth as correspondence [Audi,R] |
2737 | 'Reliable' is a very imprecise term, and may even mean 'justified' [Audi,R] |
14872 | Our knowledge is illogical, because it rests on false identities between things [Nietzsche] |
14879 | The most extreme scepticism is when you even give up logic [Nietzsche] |
14873 | If we find a hypothesis that explains many things, we conclude that it explains everything [Nietzsche] |
14868 | Our primary faculty is perception of structure, as when looking in a mirror [Nietzsche] |
14870 | We experience causation between willing and acting, and thereby explain conjunctions of changes [Nietzsche] |
2726 | We can be ignorant about ourselves, for example, our desires and motives [Audi,R] |
14867 | It is just madness to think that the mind is supernatural (or even divine!) [Nietzsche] |
14884 | The shortest path to happiness is forgetfulness, the path of animals (but of little value) [Nietzsche] |
14886 | Education is contrary to human nature [Nietzsche] |
14883 | We should evaluate the past morally [Nietzsche] |
14882 | Protest against vivisection - living things should not become objects of scientific investigation [Nietzsche] |
14865 | We do not know the nature of one single causality [Nietzsche] |
14871 | Laws of nature are merely complex networks of relations [Nietzsche] |
14864 | The Greeks lack a normative theology: each person has their own poetic view of things [Nietzsche] |
7909 | The Eightfold Path concerns morality, wisdom, and tranquillity [Ashvaghosha] |
7908 | At the end of a saint, he is not located in space, but just ceases to be disturbed [Ashvaghosha] |