19 ideas
5182 | Claims about 'the Absolute' are not even verifiable in principle [Ayer on Bradley] |
6864 | Metaphysics is finding bad reasons for instinctive beliefs [Bradley] |
10999 | Names need a means of reidentifying their referents [Bradley, by Read] |
6422 | Internal relations are said to be intrinsic properties of two terms, and of the whole they compose [Bradley, by Russell] |
7966 | Relations must be linked to their qualities, but that implies an infinite regress of relations [Bradley] |
16066 | Additional or removal of any part changes a thing, so people are never the same person [Epicharmus] |
6404 | British Idealists said reality is a single Mind which experiences itself [Bradley, by Grayling] |
22299 | Bradley's objective idealism accepts reality (the Absolute), but says we can't fully describe it [Bradley, by Potter] |
21343 | Qualities and relations are mere appearance; the Absolute is a single undifferentiated substance [Bradley, by Heil] |
436 | A dog seems handsome to another a dog, and even a pig to another pig [Epicharmus] |
14644 | If my conception of pain derives from me, it is a contradiction to speak of another's pain [Malcolm] |
5655 | Happiness is not satisfaction of desires, but fulfilment of values [Bradley, by Scruton] |
442 | Pleasures are like pirates - if you are caught they drown you in a sea of pleasures [Epicharmus] |
440 | Hands wash hands; give that you may get [Epicharmus] |
441 | Against a villain, villainy is not a useless weapon [Epicharmus] |
6406 | Reality is one, because plurality implies relations, and they assert a superior unity [Bradley] |
439 | God knows everything, and nothing is impossible for him [Epicharmus] |
1422 | God's existence is either necessary or impossible, and no one has shown that the concept of God is contradictory [Malcolm] |
443 | Human logos is an aspect of divine logos, and is sufficient for successful living [Epicharmus] |