28 ideas
23449 | Interpreting a text is representing it as making sense [Morris,M] |
6222 | If a decision is in accord with right reason, everyone can agree with it [Cumberland] |
6675 | The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing [Pascal] |
23484 | Bipolarity adds to Bivalence the capacity for both truth values [Morris,M] |
10121 | Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor lack of contradiction a sign of truth [Pascal] |
23494 | Conjunctive and disjunctive quantifiers are too specific, and are confined to the finite [Morris,M] |
23451 | Counting needs to distinguish things, and also needs the concept of a successor in a series [Morris,M] |
23460 | To count, we must distinguish things, and have a series with successors in it [Morris,M] |
23452 | Discriminating things for counting implies concepts of identity and distinctness [Morris,M] |
22011 | The first principles of truth are not rational, but are known by the heart [Pascal] |
23491 | There must exist a general form of propositions, which are predictabe. It is: such and such is the case [Morris,M] |
6681 | We only want to know things so that we can talk about them [Pascal] |
6676 | Painting makes us admire things of which we do not admire the originals [Pascal] |
6217 | Natural law is supplied to the human mind by reality and human nature [Cumberland] |
6680 | It is a funny sort of justice whose limits are marked by a river [Pascal] |
6677 | Imagination creates beauty, justice and happiness, which is the supreme good [Pascal] |
6221 | If there are different ultimate goods, there will be conflicting good actions, which is impossible [Cumberland] |
6678 | We live for the past or future, and so are never happy in the present [Pascal] |
6218 | The happiness of individuals is linked to the happiness of everyone (which is individuals taken together) [Cumberland] |
6220 | The happiness of all contains the happiness of each, and promotes it [Cumberland] |
20732 | If man considers himself as lost and imprisoned in the universe, he will be terrified [Pascal] |
6682 | Majority opinion is visible and authoritative, although not very clever [Pascal] |
6679 | It is not good to be too free [Pascal] |
6216 | Natural law is immutable truth giving moral truths and duties independent of society [Cumberland] |
7455 | Pascal knows you can't force belief, but you can make it much more probable [Pascal, by Hacking] |
7457 | Pascal is right, but relies on the unsupported claim of a half as the chance of God's existence [Hacking on Pascal] |
7456 | The libertine would lose a life of enjoyable sin if he chose the cloisters [Hacking on Pascal] |
6684 | If you win the wager on God's existence you win everything, if you lose you lose nothing [Pascal] |