30 ideas
| 23250 | Desired responsible actions result either from rational or from irrational desire [Aristotle] |
| 5847 | It is the role of dialectic to survey syllogisms [Aristotle] |
| 10653 | Maybe set theory need not be well-founded [Varzi] |
| 10648 | Mereology need not be nominalist, though it is often taken to be so [Varzi] |
| 10655 | Are there mereological atoms, and are all objects made of them? [Varzi] |
| 10659 | There is something of which everything is part, but no null-thing which is part of everything [Varzi] |
| 10661 | 'Composition is identity' says multitudes are the reality, loosely composing single things [Varzi] |
| 10654 | The parthood relation will help to define at least seven basic predicates [Varzi] |
| 10651 | If 'part' is reflexive, then identity is a limit case of parthood [Varzi] |
| 10649 | 'Part' stands for a reflexive, antisymmetric and transitive relation [Varzi] |
| 10647 | Parts may or may not be attached, demarcated, arbitrary, material, extended, spatial or temporal [Varzi] |
| 10658 | Sameness of parts won't guarantee identity if their arrangement matters [Varzi] |
| 10652 | Conceivability may indicate possibility, but literary fantasy does not [Varzi] |
| 5862 | A single counterexample is enough to prove that a truth is not necessary [Aristotle] |
| 5854 | Nobody fears a disease which nobody has yet caught [Aristotle] |
| 5849 | Rhetoric is a political offshoot of dialectic and ethics [Aristotle] |
| 5851 | Pentathletes look the most beautiful, because they combine speed and strength [Aristotle] |
| 5858 | Men are physically prime at thirty-five, and mentally prime at forty-nine [Aristotle] |
| 5855 | We all feel universal right and wrong, independent of any community or contracts [Aristotle] |
| 5850 | Happiness is composed of a catalogue of internal and external benefits [Aristotle] |
| 5856 | Self-interest is a relative good, but nobility an absolute good [Aristotle] |
| 5848 | All good things can be misused, except virtue [Aristotle] |
| 5853 | The best virtues are the most useful to others [Aristotle] |
| 5857 | The young feel pity from philanthropy, but the old from self-concern [Aristotle] |
| 5859 | Rich people are mindlessly happy [Aristotle] |
| 5852 | The four constitutions are democracy (freedom), oligarchy (wealth), aristocracy (custom), tyranny (security) [Aristotle] |
| 1660 | It is noble to avenge oneself on one's enemies, and not come to terms with them [Aristotle] |
| 13304 | Learned men gain more in one day than others do in a lifetime [Posidonius] |
| 5861 | People assume events cause what follows them [Aristotle] |
| 20820 | Time is an interval of motion, or the measure of speed [Posidonius, by Stobaeus] |