10 ideas
2945 | Most philosophers start with reality and then examine knowledge; Descartes put the study of knowledge first [Lehrer] |
2946 | You cannot demand an analysis of a concept without knowing the purpose of the analysis [Lehrer] |
6601 | Science rules the globe because of colonising power, not inherent rationality [Feyerabend] |
9329 | Justification is coherence with a background system; if irrefutable, it is knowledge [Lehrer] |
2561 | For Feyerabend the meaning of a term depends on a whole theory [Feyerabend, by Rorty] |
9330 | Generalization seems to be more fundamental to minds than spotting similarities [Lehrer] |
9328 | All conscious states can be immediately known when attention is directed to them [Lehrer] |
7598 | Zoroaster and the Hebrew prophets evolved different versions of monotheism [Zoroaster, by Armstrong,K] |
7472 | Zarathustra was the first to present a god who is an abstract concept [Zoroaster] |
20672 | Zoroastrianism saw the world as a battle between good evil gods [Zoroaster, by Harari] |