8 ideas
291 | Don't assume that wisdom is the automatic consequence of old age [Plato] |
17945 | Forms are not a theory of universals, but an attempt to explain how predication is possible [Nehamas] |
17946 | Only Tallness really is tall, and other inferior tall things merely participate in the tallness [Nehamas] |
17944 | 'Episteme' is better translated as 'understanding' than as 'knowledge' [Nehamas] |
14802 | Physical and psychical laws of mind are either independent, or derived in one or other direction [Peirce] |
293 | Being unafraid (perhaps through ignorance) and being brave are two different things [Plato] |
14800 | The world is full of variety, but laws seem to produce uniformity [Peirce] |
14801 | Darwinian evolution is chance, with the destruction of bad results [Peirce] |