34 ideas
| 8093 | Seek wisdom rather than truth; it is easier [Joubert] |
| 8095 | We must think with our entire body and soul [Joubert] |
| 8107 | The love of certainty holds us back in metaphysics [Joubert] |
| 8099 | The truths of reason instruct, but they do not illuminate [Joubert] |
| 8098 | Truth consists of having the same idea about something that God has [Joubert] |
| 22180 | Multiple realisability is said to make reduction impossible [Okasha] |
| 23551 | It is necessary for a belief that it be held for a length of time [Fricker,M] |
| 8101 | To know is to see inside oneself [Joubert] |
| 23558 | Offering knowledge needs accuracy and sincerity; receiving it needs testimonial justice [Fricker,M] |
| 23553 | Testimonial judgement is not logical, but produces reasons and motivations [Fricker,M] |
| 23550 | Burge says we are normally a priori entitled to believe testimony [Fricker,M] |
| 23552 | We assess testimonial probabilities by the speaker, the listener, the facts, and the circumstances [Fricker,M] |
| 23555 | Assessing credibility involves the impact of both the speaker's and the listener's social identity [Fricker,M] |
| 22177 | Randomised Control Trials have a treatment and a control group, chosen at random [Okasha] |
| 22172 | Not all sciences are experimental; astronomy relies on careful observation [Okasha] |
| 22174 | The discoverers of Neptune didn't change their theory because of an anomaly [Okasha] |
| 22175 | Science mostly aims at confirming theories, rather than falsifying them [Okasha] |
| 22182 | Theories with unobservables are underdetermined by the evidence [Okasha] |
| 22185 | Two things can't be incompatible if they are incommensurable [Okasha] |
| 22176 | Induction is inferences from examined to unexamined instances of a given kind [Okasha] |
| 22178 | If the rules only concern changes of belief, and not the starting point, absurd views can look ratiional [Okasha] |
| 8094 | The imagination has made more discoveries than the eye [Joubert] |
| 8103 | A thought is as real as a cannon ball [Joubert] |
| 23554 | Judgements can be unreflective and non-inferential, yet rational, by being sensitive to experience [Fricker,M] |
| 8100 | Where does the bird's idea of a nest come from? [Joubert] |
| 23557 | To judge agents in remote times and cultures we need a moral resentment weaker than blame [Fricker,M] |
| 8096 | He gives his body up to pleasure, but not his soul [Joubert] |
| 8104 | What will you think of pleasures when you no longer enjoy them? [Joubert] |
| 8097 | Virtue is hard if we are scorned; we need support [Joubert] |
| 8106 | In raising a child we must think of his old age [Joubert] |
| 22173 | Galileo refuted the Aristotelian theory that heavier objects fall faster [Okasha] |
| 17366 | Virtually all modern views of speciation rest on relational rather than intrinsic features [Okasha] |
| 8105 | We can't exactly conceive virtue without the idea of God [Joubert] |
| 8102 | We cannot speak against Christianity without anger, or speak for it without love [Joubert] |