10 ideas
23877 | Most people won't question an idea's truth if they depend on it [Weil] |
18935 | Semantic theory should specify when an act of naming is successful [Sawyer] |
18945 | Millians say a name just means its object [Sawyer] |
18934 | Sentences with empty names can be understood, be co-referential, and even be true [Sawyer] |
18938 | Frege's compositional account of truth-vaues makes 'Pegasus doesn't exist' neither true nor false [Sawyer] |
18947 | Definites descriptions don't solve the empty names problem, because the properties may not exist [Sawyer] |
23878 | Weakness of will is the inadequacy of the original impetus to carry through the action [Weil] |
23879 | In a violent moral disagreement, it can't be that both sides are just following social morality [Weil] |
20239 | Unlike us, the early Greeks thought envy was a good thing, and hope a bad thing [Hesiod, by Nietzsche] |
23880 | When war was a profession, customary morality justified any act of war [Weil] |