11 ideas
| 291 | Don't assume that wisdom is the automatic consequence of old age [Plato] |
| 22026 | Philosophy is homesickness - the urge to be at home everywhere [Novalis] |
| 5163 | Basic propositions refer to a single experience, are incorrigible, and conclusively verifiable [Ayer] |
| 5167 | The argument from analogy fails, so the best account of other minds is behaviouristic [Ayer] |
| 19591 | Desire for perfection is an illness, if it turns against what is imperfect [Novalis] |
| 5164 | A statement is meaningful if observation statements can be deduced from it [Ayer] |
| 5165 | Directly verifiable statements must entail at least one new observation statement [Ayer] |
| 5166 | The principle of verification is not an empirical hypothesis, but a definition [Ayer] |
| 5162 | Sentences only express propositions if they are meaningful; otherwise they are 'statements' [Ayer] |
| 5168 | Moral approval and disapproval concerns classes of actions, rather than particular actions [Ayer] |
| 293 | Being unafraid (perhaps through ignorance) and being brave are two different things [Plato] |