10 ideas
3035 | Dialectic involves conversations with short questions and brief answers [Diog. Laertius] |
1816 | Sceptics say demonstration depends on self-demonstrating things, or indemonstrable things [Diog. Laertius] |
1819 | Scepticism has two dogmas: that nothing is definable, and every argument has an opposite argument [Diog. Laertius] |
3064 | When sceptics say that nothing is definable, or all arguments have an opposite, they are being dogmatic [Diog. Laertius] |
3033 | Induction moves from some truths to similar ones, by contraries or consequents [Diog. Laertius] |
3157 | T.H.Huxley gave the earliest clear statement of epiphenomenalism [Huxley, by Rey] |
3154 | Brain causes mind, but it doesn't seem that mind causes actions [Huxley] |
1838 | Cyrenaic pleasure is a motion, but Epicurean pleasure is a condition [Diog. Laertius] |
1769 | Cynics believe that when a man wishes for nothing he is like the gods [Diog. Laertius] |
20558 | Your representative owes you his judgement, and betrays you if he gives your opinion instead [Burke] |