23 ideas
7893 | Our life is the creation of our mind [Anon (Dham)] |
11193 | Understanding begins with the notion of being and essence [Avicenna] |
11209 | The simple's whatness is its very self [Avicenna] |
11204 | The ultimate material of things has the unity of total formlessness [Avicenna] |
15036 | An essence can either be universal (in the mind) or singular (in concrete particulars) [Avicenna, by Panaccio] |
7898 | The world is just the illusion of an appearance [Anon (Dham)] |
7439 | The qualities involved in sensations are entirely intentional [Anscombe, by Armstrong] |
8353 | Freedom involves acting according to an idea [Anscombe] |
8352 | To believe in determinism, one must believe in a system which determines events [Anscombe] |
20041 | Intentional actions are those which are explained by giving the reason for so acting [Anscombe] |
7894 | Hate is conquered by love [Anon (Dham)] |
7899 | Even divine pleasure will not satisfy the wise, as it is insatiable, and leads to pain [Anon (Dham)] |
7896 | The foolish gradually fill with evil, like a slowly-filled water-jar [Anon (Dham)] |
7897 | The wise gradually fill with good, like a slowly-filled water-jar [Anon (Dham)] |
8070 | It would be better to point to failings of character, than to moral wrongness of actions [Anscombe] |
7895 | Don't befriend fools; either find superior friends, or travel alone [Anon (Dham)] |
8065 | 'Ought' and 'right' are survivals from earlier ethics, and should be jettisoned [Anscombe] |
8069 | Between Aristotle and us, a Judaeo-Christian legal conception of ethics was developed [Anscombe] |
8351 | With diseases we easily trace a cause from an effect, but we cannot predict effects [Anscombe] |
4777 | The word 'cause' is an abstraction from a group of causal terms in a language (scrape, push..) [Anscombe] |
10363 | Causation is relative to how we describe the primary relata [Anscombe, by Schaffer,J] |
8350 | Since Mill causation has usually been explained by necessary and sufficient conditions [Anscombe] |
7900 | Speak the truth, yield not to anger, give what you can to him who asks [Anon (Dham)] |