49 ideas
13786 | Wisdom is called 'beautiful', because it performs fine works [Plato] |
13780 | Good people are no different from wise ones [Plato] |
17651 | Without words or other symbols, we have no world [Goodman] |
13778 | A dialectician is someone who knows how to ask and to answer questions [Plato] |
17652 | Truth is irrelevant if no statements are involved [Goodman] |
13776 | Truths say of what is that it is, falsehoods say of what is that it is not [Plato] |
13777 | A name is a sort of tool [Plato] |
13790 | A name-giver might misname something, then force other names to conform to it [Plato] |
13791 | Things must be known before they are named, so it can't be the names that give us knowledge [Plato] |
13789 | Anyone who knows a thing's name also knows the thing [Plato] |
2063 | How can beauty have identity if it changes? [Plato] |
17656 | Being primitive or prior always depends on a constructional system [Goodman] |
17661 | We don't recognise patterns - we invent them [Goodman] |
17659 | Reality is largely a matter of habit [Goodman] |
17657 | We build our world, and ignore anything that won't fit [Goodman] |
17377 | All descriptive language is classificatory [Dupré] |
13775 | We only succeed in cutting if we use appropriate tools, not if we approach it randomly [Plato] |
17376 | We should aim for a classification which tells us as much as possible about the object [Dupré] |
17654 | A world can be full of variety or not, depending on how we sort it [Goodman] |
13787 | Doesn't each thing have an essence, just as it has other qualities? [Plato] |
13774 | Things don't have every attribute, and essence isn't private, so each thing has an essence [Plato] |
17390 | Natural kinds don't need essentialism to be explanatory [Dupré] |
17389 | A species might have its essential genetic mechanism replaced by a new one [Dupré] |
17388 | It seems that species lack essential properties, so they can't be natural kinds [Dupré] |
13772 | Is the being or essence of each thing private to each person? [Plato] |
17653 | Things can only be judged the 'same' by citing some respect of sameness [Goodman] |
13788 | If we made a perfect duplicate of Cratylus, there would be two Cratyluses [Plato] |
17660 | Discovery is often just finding a fit, like a jigsaw puzzle [Goodman] |
13792 | There can't be any knowledge if things are constantly changing [Plato] |
17374 | The possibility of prediction rests on determinism [Dupré] |
17658 | Users of digital thermometers recognise no temperatures in the gaps [Goodman] |
17650 | We lack frames of reference to transform physics, biology and psychology into one another [Goodman] |
17655 | Grue and green won't be in the same world, as that would block induction entirely [Goodman] |
13781 | Soul causes the body to live, and gives it power to breathe and to be revitalized [Plato] |
17378 | Presumably molecular structure seems important because we never have the Twin Earth experience [Dupré] |
13785 | 'Arete' signifies lack of complexity and a free-flowing soul [Plato] |
17649 | If the world is one it has many aspects, and if there are many worlds they will collect into one [Goodman] |
17381 | Phylogenetics involves history, and cladism rests species on splits in lineage [Dupré] |
17385 | Kinds don't do anything (including evolve) because they are abstract [Dupré] |
17375 | Natural kinds are decided entirely by the intentions of our classification [Dupré] |
17379 | Borders between species are much less clear in vegetables than among animals [Dupré] |
17384 | Even atoms of an element differ, in the energy levels of their electrons [Dupré] |
17387 | Ecologists favour classifying by niche, even though that can clash with genealogy [Dupré] |
17380 | Wales may count as fish [Dupré] |
17382 | Cooks, unlike scientists, distinguish garlic from onions [Dupré] |
13779 | The natural offspring of a lion is called a 'lion' (but what about the offspring of a king?) [Plato] |
17383 | Species are the lowest-level classification in biology [Dupré] |
17386 | The theory of evolution is mainly about species [Dupré] |
13783 | Even the gods love play [Plato] |