Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Laches', 'works' and 'A Dictionary of Philosophy'

expand these ideas     |    start again     |     specify just one area for these texts

---

5 ideas

1. Philosophy / A. Wisdom / 3. Wisdom Deflated

291	Don't assume that wisdom is the automatic consequence of old age [Plato]

5. Theory of Logic / D. Assumptions for Logic / 2. Excluded Middle

15941

For intuitionists excluded middle is an outdated historical convention [Brouwer]

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 3. Nature of Numbers / h. Reals from Cauchy

18247

Brouwer saw reals as potential, not actual, and produced by a rule, or a choice [Brouwer, by Shapiro]

12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 4. Sense Data / a. Sense-data theory

6456	Sense-data are neutral uninterpreted experiences, separated from objects and judgements [Angeles]

23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 3. Virtues / d. Courage

293	Being unafraid (perhaps through ignorance) and being brave are two different things [Plato]