8 ideas
291 | Don't assume that wisdom is the automatic consequence of old age [Plato] |
22752 | Reasoning is impossible without a preconception [Sext.Empiricus] |
15941 | For intuitionists excluded middle is an outdated historical convention [Brouwer] |
18247 | Brouwer saw reals as potential, not actual, and produced by a rule, or a choice [Brouwer, by Shapiro] |
22754 | Saying the good is useful or choiceworth or happiness-creating is not the good, but a feature of it [Sext.Empiricus] |
22755 | Like a warming fire, what is good by nature should be good for everyone [Sext.Empiricus] |
22756 | If a desire is itself desirable, then we shouldn't desire it, as achieving it destroys it [Sext.Empiricus] |
293 | Being unafraid (perhaps through ignorance) and being brave are two different things [Plato] |