9 ideas
12741 | If experience is just a dream, it is still real enough if critical reason is never deceived [Leibniz] |
12740 | The strongest criterion that phenomena show reality is success in prediction [Leibniz] |
23647 | Objects have an essential constitution, producing its qualities, which we are too ignorant to define [Reid] |
579 | Cratylus said you couldn't even step into the same river once [Cratylus, by Aristotle] |
11958 | Impossibilites are easily conceived in mathematics and geometry [Reid, by Molnar] |
12721 | Light, heat and colour are apparent qualities, and so are motion, figure and extension [Leibniz] |
578 | Cratylus decided speech was hopeless, and his only expression was the movement of a finger [Cratylus, by Aristotle] |
23646 | Reference is by name, or a term-plus-circumstance, or ostensively, or by description [Reid] |
23645 | A word's meaning is the thing conceived, as fixed by linguistic experts [Reid] |