8 ideas
291 | Don't assume that wisdom is the automatic consequence of old age [Plato] |
15533 | We can quantify over fictions by quantifying for real over their names [Lewis] |
15534 | We could quantify over impossible objects - as bundles of properties [Lewis] |
15532 | 'Allists' embrace the existence of all controversial entities; 'noneists' reject all but the obvious ones [Lewis] |
15535 | We can't accept a use of 'existence' that says only some of the things there are actually exist [Lewis] |
20991 | People prepare our dinner from their own self-interest, not from humanity [Smith,A] |
293 | Being unafraid (perhaps through ignorance) and being brave are two different things [Plato] |
20680 | Selfish profit-seeking increases collective wealth, so greed is good, and egoism is altruism [Smith,A, by Harari] |