13 ideas
19086 | Does the pragmatic theory of meaning support objective truth, or make it impossible? [Macbeth] |
8132 | We now have a much more sophisticated understanding of logical form in language [Burge] |
19093 | Greek mathematics is wholly sensory, where ours is wholly inferential [Macbeth] |
19091 | Seeing reality mathematically makes it an object of thought, not of experience [Macbeth] |
8126 | Anti-individualism says the environment is involved in the individuation of some mental states [Burge] |
8127 | Broad concepts suggest an extension of the mind into the environment (less computer-like) [Burge] |
8129 | Anti-individualism may be incompatible with some sorts of self-knowledge [Burge] |
8131 | Some qualities of experience, like blurred vision, have no function at all [Burge] |
19088 | For pragmatists a concept means its consequences [Macbeth] |
6012 | We must choose in which of the virtues we wish to excel [Panaetius] |
6013 | Panaetius said we should live according to our natural starting-points [Panaetius, by Asmis] |
6014 | Panaetius identified courage with great-mindedness, preferring civic courage to military [Panaetius, by Asmis] |
5888 | Souls are born, since they are sensitive and inherited, so they must perish [Panaetius, by Cicero] |