30 ideas
8093 | Seek wisdom rather than truth; it is easier [Joubert] |
8095 | We must think with our entire body and soul [Joubert] |
8107 | The love of certainty holds us back in metaphysics [Joubert] |
17713 | After 1903, Husserl avoids metaphysical commitments [Mares] |
8099 | The truths of reason instruct, but they do not illuminate [Joubert] |
8098 | Truth consists of having the same idea about something that God has [Joubert] |
17715 | The truth of the axioms doesn't matter for pure mathematics, but it does for applied [Mares] |
17716 | Mathematics is relations between properties we abstract from experience [Mares] |
17703 | Light in straight lines is contingent a priori; stipulated as straight, because they happen to be so [Mares] |
17714 | Aristotelians dislike the idea of a priori judgements from pure reason [Mares] |
17705 | Empiricists say rationalists mistake imaginative powers for modal insights [Mares] |
8101 | To know is to see inside oneself [Joubert] |
17700 | The most popular view is that coherent beliefs explain one another [Mares] |
17704 | Operationalism defines concepts by our ways of measuring them [Mares] |
8094 | The imagination has made more discoveries than the eye [Joubert] |
8103 | A thought is as real as a cannon ball [Joubert] |
17710 | Aristotelian justification uses concepts abstracted from experience [Mares] |
8100 | Where does the bird's idea of a nest come from? [Joubert] |
17706 | The essence of a concept is either its definition or its conceptual relations? [Mares] |
17701 | Possible worlds semantics has a nice compositional account of modal statements [Mares] |
17702 | Unstructured propositions are sets of possible worlds; structured ones have components [Mares] |
8096 | He gives his body up to pleasure, but not his soul [Joubert] |
8104 | What will you think of pleasures when you no longer enjoy them? [Joubert] |
8097 | Virtue is hard if we are scorned; we need support [Joubert] |
541 | Virtue comes more from habit than character [Critias] |
8106 | In raising a child we must think of his old age [Joubert] |
17708 | Maybe space has points, but processes always need regions with a size [Mares] |
8105 | We can't exactly conceive virtue without the idea of God [Joubert] |
542 | Fear of the gods was invented to discourage secret sin [Critias] |
8102 | We cannot speak against Christianity without anger, or speak for it without love [Joubert] |