23 ideas
1922 | Spiritual qualities only become advantageous with the growth of wisdom [Plato] |
19306 | It is a principle of reasoning not to clutter your mind with trivialities [Harman] |
19304 | The rules of reasoning are not the rules of logic [Harman] |
19307 | If there is a great cost to avoiding inconsistency, we learn to reason our way around it [Harman] |
19309 | Logic has little relevance to reasoning, except when logical conclusions are immediate [Harman] |
19303 | Implication just accumulates conclusions, but inference may also revise our views [Harman] |
11259 | How can you seek knowledge of something if you don't know it? [Plato] |
19305 | The Gambler's Fallacy (ten blacks, so red is due) overemphasises the early part of a sequence [Harman] |
19310 | High probability premises need not imply high probability conclusions [Harman] |
20219 | True opinions only become really valuable when they are tied down by reasons [Plato] |
19308 | We strongly desire to believe what is true, even though logic does not require it [Harman] |
5985 | Seeking and learning are just recollection [Plato] |
5986 | The slave boy learns geometry from questioning, not teaching, so it is recollection [Plato] |
1923 | As a guide to action, true opinion is as good as knowledge [Plato] |
19311 | In revision of belief, we need to keep track of justifications for foundations, but not for coherence [Harman] |
19312 | Coherence is intelligible connections, especially one element explaining another [Harman] |
1919 | You don't need to learn what you know, and how do you seek for what you don't know? [Plato] |
15998 | Perfect love is not in spite of imperfections; the imperfections must be loved as well [Kierkegaard] |
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] |