9 ideas
8956 | What is a singleton set, if a set is meant to be a collection of objects? [Szabó] |
18933 | Not-Being obviously doesn't exist, and the five modes of Being are all impossible [Gorgias, by Diog. Laertius] |
8953 | Abstract entities don't depend on their concrete entities ...but maybe on the totality of concrete things [Szabó] |
7458 | The reliability of witnesses depends on whether they benefit from their observations [Laplace, by Hacking] |
8954 | Geometrical circles cannot identify a circular paint patch, presumably because they lack something [Szabó] |
3441 | If a supreme intellect knew all atoms and movements, it could know all of the past and the future [Laplace] |
8955 | Abstractions are imperceptible, non-causal, and non-spatiotemporal (the third explaining the others) [Szabó] |
9866 | Gorgias says rhetoric is the best of arts, because it enslaves without using force [Gorgias, by Plato] |
5864 | Destroy seriousness with laughter, and laughter with seriousness [Gorgias] |