17 ideas
| 3798 | An overexamined life is as bad as an unexamined one [Dennett] |
| 3801 | Rationality requires the assumption that things are either for better or worse [Dennett] |
| 16489 | Is it possible to state every possible truth about the whole course of nature without using 'not'? [Russell] |
| 579 | Cratylus said you couldn't even step into the same river once [Cratylus, by Aristotle] |
| 16490 | Some facts about experience feel like logical necessities [Russell] |
| 3802 | Why pronounce impossible what you cannot imagine? [Dennett] |
| 16488 | It is hard to explain how a sentence like 'it is not raining' can be found true by observation [Russell] |
| 3795 | Causal theories require the "right" sort of link (usually unspecified) [Dennett] |
| 578 | Cratylus decided speech was hopeless, and his only expression was the movement of a finger [Cratylus, by Aristotle] |
| 3797 | I am the sum total of what I directly control [Dennett] |
| 3803 | Can we conceive of a being with a will freer than our own? [Dennett] |
| 3800 | You can be free even though force would have prevented you doing otherwise [Dennett, by PG] |
| 3791 | Awareness of thought is a step beyond awareness of the world [Dennett] |
| 3794 | Foreknowledge permits control [Dennett] |
| 3796 | The active self is a fiction created because we are ignorant of our motivations [Dennett] |
| 16491 | If we define 'this is not blue' as disbelief in 'this is blue', we eliminate 'not' as an ingredient of facts [Russell] |
| 4786 | Russell's 'at-at' theory says motion is to be at the intervening points at the intervening instants [Russell, by Psillos] |