11 ideas
291 | Don't assume that wisdom is the automatic consequence of old age [Plato] |
15785 | Our commitments are to an 'ontology', but also to an 'ideology', or conceptual system [Hintikka] |
472 | No things would be clear to us as entity or relationships unless there existed Number and its essence [Philolaus] |
15786 | Commitment to possible worlds is part of our ideology, not part of our ontology [Hintikka] |
293 | Being unafraid (perhaps through ignorance) and being brave are two different things [Plato] |
1518 | Everything must involve numbers, or it couldn't be thought about or known [Philolaus] |
1519 | Harmony must pre-exist the cosmos, to bring the dissimilar sources together [Philolaus] |
473 | There is no falsehood in harmony and number, only in irrational things [Philolaus] |
469 | Existing things, and hence the Cosmos, are a mixture of the Limited and the Unlimited [Philolaus] |
476 | Self-created numbers make the universe stable [Philolaus] |
1787 | Philolaus was the first person to say the earth moves in a circle [Philolaus, by Diog. Laertius] |