13 ideas
6259 | Why can't a wise man doubt everything? [Montaigne] |
6263 | No wisdom could make us comfortably walk a wide beam if it was high in the air [Montaigne] |
15527 | Defining terms either enables elimination, or shows that they don't require elimination [Lewis] |
6258 | Virtue is the distinctive mark of truth, and its greatest product [Montaigne] |
6262 | We lack some sense or other, and hence objects may have hidden features [Montaigne] |
15530 | A logically determinate name names the same thing in every possible world [Lewis] |
6260 | Sceptics say there is truth, but no means of making or testing lasting judgements [Montaigne] |
15528 | A Ramsey sentence just asserts that a theory can be realised, without saying by what [Lewis] |
15526 | There is a method for defining new scientific terms just using the terms we already understand [Lewis] |
15529 | It is better to have one realisation of a theory than many - but it may not always be possible [Lewis] |
15531 | The Ramsey sentence of a theory says that it has at least one realisation [Lewis] |
6261 | The soul is in the brain, as shown by head injuries [Montaigne] |
467 | A virtue is a combination of intelligence, strength and luck [Ion] |