16 ideas
1542 | Diogenes of Apollonia was the last natural scientist [Diogenes of Apollonia, by Simplicius] |
8251 | The logical space of reasons is a natural phenomenon, and it is the realm of freedom [McDowell] |
489 | Each thing must be in some way unique [Diogenes of Apollonia] |
483 | Start a thesis with something undisputable [Diogenes of Apollonia] |
8128 | Representation must be propositional if it can give reasons and be epistemological [McDowell, by Burge] |
19092 | There is no pure Given, but it is cultured, rather than entirely relative [McDowell, by Macbeth] |
1544 | Perception must be an internal matter, because we can fail to perceive when we are preoccupied [Diogenes of Apollonia, by Theophrastus] |
8253 | Sense impressions already have conceptual content [McDowell] |
24042 | The older Diogenes said the soul is air, made of the smallest particles [Diogenes of Apollonia] |
8254 | Forming concepts by abstraction from the Given is private definition, which the Private Lang. Arg. attacks [McDowell] |
15640 | Courage is not a virtue, but the form of every virtue at its testing point [Lewis,CS] |
5995 | Diogenes of Apollonia offered the first teleological account of cosmology [Diogenes of Apollonia, by Robinson,TM] |
484 | Everything is ultimately a variation of one underlying thing [Diogenes of Apollonia] |
488 | Air is divine, because it is in and around everything, and arranges everything [Diogenes of Apollonia] |
486 | Plants and animals can only come into existence if something fixes their species [Diogenes of Apollonia] |
485 | Things must retain their essential nature during change, or mixing would be impossible [Diogenes of Apollonia] |