11 ideas
411 | If we succeed in speaking the truth, we cannot know we have done it [Xenophanes] |
412 | If God had not created honey, men would say figs are sweeter [Xenophanes] |
17527 | Causation seems to be an innate concept (or acquired very early) [Bird] |
541 | Virtue comes more from habit than character [Critias] |
1640 | The basic Eleatic belief was that all things are one [Xenophanes, by Plato] |
17528 | The dispositional account explains causation, as stimulation and manifestation of dispositions [Bird] |
17526 | The counterfactual approach makes no distinction between cause and pre-condition [Bird] |
3055 | Xenophanes said the essence of God was spherical and utterly inhuman [Xenophanes, by Diog. Laertius] |
407 | Mortals believe gods are born, and have voices and clothes just like mortals [Xenophanes] |
542 | Fear of the gods was invented to discourage secret sin [Critias] |
408 | Ethiopian gods have black hair, and Thracian gods have red hair [Xenophanes] |