21 ideas
192 | Only one thing can be contrary to something [Plato] |
10735 | Abstraction from objects won't reveal an operation's being performed 'so many times' [Geach] |
12354 | A 'categorial' property is had by virtue of being or having an item from a category [Wedin] |
190 | If asked whether justice itself is just or unjust, you would have to say that it is just [Plato] |
12358 | Substance is a principle and a kind of cause [Wedin] |
12346 | Form explains why some matter is of a certain kind, and that is explanatory bedrock [Wedin] |
20185 | The most important things in life are wisdom and knowledge [Plato] |
20184 | The only real evil is loss of knowledge [Plato] |
10732 | If concepts are just recognitional, then general judgements would be impossible [Geach] |
191 | Everything resembles everything else up to a point [Plato] |
10731 | For abstractionists, concepts are capacities to recognise recurrent features of the world [Geach] |
10733 | The abstractionist cannot explain 'some' and 'not' [Geach] |
10734 | Only a judgement can distinguish 'striking' from 'being struck' [Geach] |
203 | Courage is knowing what should or shouldn't be feared [Plato] |
202 | No one willingly and knowingly embraces evil [Plato] |
193 | Some things are good even though they are not beneficial to men [Plato] |
197 | Some pleasures are not good, and some pains are not evil [Plato] |
200 | People tend only to disapprove of pleasure if it leads to pain, or prevents future pleasure [Plato] |
188 | Socrates did not believe that virtue could be taught [Plato] |
204 | Socrates is contradicting himself in claiming virtue can't be taught, but that it is knowledge [Plato] |
189 | If we punish wrong-doers, it shows that we believe virtue can be taught [Plato] |