27 ideas
13786 | Wisdom is called 'beautiful', because it performs fine works [Plato] |
13780 | Good people are no different from wise ones [Plato] |
5021 | An idea is analysed perfectly when it is shown a priori that it is possible [Leibniz] |
13778 | A dialectician is someone who knows how to ask and to answer questions [Plato] |
6021 | It is only when we say a proposition that we speak truly or falsely [Sext.Empiricus] |
13776 | Truths say of what is that it is, falsehoods say of what is that it is not [Plato] |
6020 | 'Man is a rational mortal animal' is equivalent to 'if something is a man, that thing is a rational mortal animal' [Sext.Empiricus] |
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] |
13775 | We only succeed in cutting if we use appropriate tools, not if we approach it randomly [Plato] |
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] |
13772 | Is the being or essence of each thing private to each person? [Plato] |
13788 | If we made a perfect duplicate of Cratylus, there would be two Cratyluses [Plato] |
5020 | Our thoughts are either dependent, or self-evident. All thoughts seem to end in the self-evident [Leibniz] |
13792 | There can't be any knowledge if things are constantly changing [Plato] |
6026 | How can you investigate without some preconception of your object? [Sext.Empiricus] |
13781 | Soul causes the body to live, and gives it power to breathe and to be revitalized [Plato] |
5019 | Supreme human happiness is the greatest possible increase of his perfection [Leibniz] |
6032 | Right actions, once done, are those with a reasonable justification [Sext.Empiricus] |
13785 | 'Arete' signifies lack of complexity and a free-flowing soul [Plato] |
1517 | The tektraktys (1+2+3+4=10) is the 'fount of ever-flowing nature' [Sext.Empiricus] |
13779 | The natural offspring of a lion is called a 'lion' (but what about the offspring of a king?) [Plato] |
13783 | Even the gods love play [Plato] |