43 ideas
| 6814 | Instead of prayer and charity, sinners pursue vain disputes and want their own personal scripture [Mohammed] |
| 4739 | In "if and only if" (iff), "if" expresses the sufficient condition, and "only if" the necessary condition [Engel] |
| 4737 | Are truth-bearers propositions, or ideas/beliefs, or sentences/utterances? [Engel] |
| 4750 | The redundancy theory gets rid of facts, for 'it is a fact that p' just means 'p' [Engel] |
| 4744 | We can't explain the corresponding structure of the world except by referring to our thoughts [Engel] |
| 4738 | The coherence theory says truth is an internal relationship between groups of truth-bearers [Engel] |
| 4745 | Any coherent set of beliefs can be made more coherent by adding some false beliefs [Engel] |
| 4753 | Deflationism seems to block philosophers' main occupation, asking metatheoretical questions [Engel] |
| 4755 | Deflationism cannot explain why we hold beliefs for reasons [Engel] |
| 4751 | Maybe there is no more to be said about 'true' than there is about the function of 'and' in logic [Engel] |
| 4752 | Deflationism must reduce bivalence ('p is true or false') to excluded middle ('p or not-p') [Engel] |
| 4762 | The Humean theory of motivation is that beliefs may be motivators as well as desires [Engel] |
| 4754 | Our beliefs are meant to fit the world (i.e. be true), where we want the world to fit our desires [Engel] |
| 4763 | 'Evidentialists' say, and 'voluntarists' deny, that we only believe on the basis of evidence [Engel] |
| 4746 | Pragmatism is better understood as a theory of belief than as a theory of truth [Engel] |
| 4764 | We cannot directly control our beliefs, but we can control the causes of our involuntary beliefs [Engel] |
| 4759 | Mental states as functions are second-order properties, realised by first-order physical properties [Engel] |
| 23395 | Mohists desire wealth, population and social order as the best consequences [Mozi, by Norden] |
| 6823 | Repay evil with good and your enemies will become friends (though this is hard) [Mohammed] |
| 6828 | You may break off a treaty if you fear treachery from your ally [Mohammed] |
| 23394 | If people regarded other states as they did their own, they would never attack them [Mozi] |
| 6826 | Allah rewards those who are devout, sincere, patient, humble, charitable, chaste, and who fast [Mohammed] |
| 6822 | Those who avenge themselves when wronged incur no guilt [Mohammed] |
| 23396 | Mozi condemns partiality, which is the cause of all the great harms in the world [Mozi] |
| 23397 | Those who are against impartiality still prefer impartial protectors [Mozi] |
| 6833 | Punish theft in men or women by cutting off their hands [Mohammed] |
| 6825 | Do not kill except for a just cause [Mohammed] |
| 6832 | Killing a human, except as just punishment, is like killing all mankind [Mohammed] |
| 6811 | Allah is lord of creation, compassionate, merciful, king of judgement-day [Mohammed] |
| 6819 | True believers see that Allah made the night for rest and the day to give light [Mohammed] |
| 6818 | Allah cannot have begotten a son, as He is self-sufficient [Mohammed] |
| 6831 | He that kills a believer by design shall burn in Hell for ever [Mohammed] |
| 6829 | There shall be no compulsion in religion [Mohammed] |
| 6834 | Unbelievers try to interpret the ambiguous parts of the Koran, simply to create dissension [Mohammed] |
| 6817 | The Koran is certainly composed by Allah; no one could compose a chapter like it [Mohammed] |
| 6824 | Do not split into sects, exulting in separate beliefs [Mohammed] |
| 6821 | I created mankind that it might worship Me [Mohammed] |
| 6815 | Be patient with unbelievers, and leave them to the judgement of Allah [Mohammed] |
| 6827 | Make war on the unbelievers until Allah's religion reigns supreme [Mohammed] |
| 6820 | The righteous shall dwell on couches in gardens, wedded to dark-eyed houris [Mohammed] |
| 6812 | Heaven will be reclining on couches, eating fruit, attended by virgins [Mohammed] |
| 6830 | Unbelievers will have their skin repeatedly burned off in hell [Mohammed] |
| 6816 | The unbelievers shall drink boiling water [Mohammed] |