14 ideas
| 291 | Don't assume that wisdom is the automatic consequence of old age [Plato] |
| 7396 | Hobbes created English-language philosophy [Hobbes, by Tuck] |
| 12129 | 'Truth' may only apply within a theory [Kuhn] |
| 16638 | The qualities of the world are mere appearances; reality is the motions which cause them [Hobbes] |
| 16688 | Evidence is conception, which is imagination, which proceeds from the senses [Hobbes] |
| 7405 | Experience can't prove universal truths [Hobbes] |
| 6809 | Kuhn came to accept that all scientists agree on a particular set of values [Kuhn, by Bird] |
| 12128 | In theory change, words shift their natural reference, so the theories are incommensurable [Kuhn] |
| 7408 | It is an error that reason should control the passions, which give right guidance on their own [Hobbes, by Tuck] |
| 7407 | Good and evil are what please us; goodness and badness the powers causing them [Hobbes] |
| 7410 | Self-preservation is basic, and people judge differently about that, implying ethical relativism [Hobbes, by Tuck] |
| 7409 | Hobbes shifted from talk of 'the good' to talk of 'rights' [Hobbes, by Tuck] |
| 293 | Being unafraid (perhaps through ignorance) and being brave are two different things [Plato] |
| 7411 | The attributes of God just show our inability to conceive his nature [Hobbes] |