9 ideas
22115 | Wise people should contemplate and discuss the truth, and fight against falsehood [Aquinas] |
12205 | There are two families of modal notions, metaphysical and epistemic, of equal strength [Edgington] |
12207 | Metaphysical possibility is discovered empirically, and is contrained by nature [Edgington] |
12206 | Broadly logical necessity (i.e. not necessarily formal logical necessity) is an epistemic notion [Edgington] |
12208 | An argument is only valid if it is epistemically (a priori) necessary [Edgington] |
20700 | Without God's influence every operation would stop, so God causes everything [Aquinas] |
13304 | Learned men gain more in one day than others do in a lifetime [Posidonius] |
20820 | Time is an interval of motion, or the measure of speed [Posidonius, by Stobaeus] |
15202 | Eternity coexists with passing time, as the centre of a circle coexists with its circumference [Aquinas] |