17 ideas
1922 | Spiritual qualities only become advantageous with the growth of wisdom [Plato] |
11259 | How can you seek knowledge of something if you don't know it? [Plato] |
20219 | True opinions only become really valuable when they are tied down by reasons [Plato] |
5985 | Seeking and learning are just recollection [Plato] |
5986 | The slave boy learns geometry from questioning, not teaching, so it is recollection [Plato] |
7401 | Heat and colour don't exist, so cannot mislead about the external world [Galileo, by Tuck] |
5454 | Tastes, odours and colours only reside in consciousness, and would disappear with creatures [Galileo] |
1923 | As a guide to action, true opinion is as good as knowledge [Plato] |
2667 | A false object might give the same presentation as a true one [Arcesilaus, by Cicero] |
1919 | You don't need to learn what you know, and how do you seek for what you don't know? [Plato] |
16560 | Galileo introduced geometrico-mechanical explanation, based on Archimedes [Galileo, by Machamer/Darden/Craver] |
1913 | Is virtue taught, or achieved by practice, or a natural aptitude, or what? [Plato] |
1921 | If virtue is a type of knowledge then it ought to be taught [Plato] |
1927 | It seems that virtue is neither natural nor taught, but is a divine gift [Plato] |
1918 | How can you know part of virtue without knowing the whole? [Plato] |
1916 | Even if virtues are many and various, they must have something in common to make them virtues [Plato] |
3645 | To understand the universe mathematics is essential [Galileo] |