15 ideas
16066 | Additional or removal of any part changes a thing, so people are never the same person [Epicharmus] |
16285 | A possible world can be seen as a complete and consistent novel [Jeffrey] |
411 | If we succeed in speaking the truth, we cannot know we have done it [Xenophanes] |
412 | If God had not created honey, men would say figs are sweeter [Xenophanes] |
436 | A dog seems handsome to another a dog, and even a pig to another pig [Epicharmus] |
19155 | Instead of gambling, Jeffrey made the objects of Bayesian preference to be propositions [Jeffrey, by Davidson] |
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] |
1640 | The basic Eleatic belief was that all things are one [Xenophanes, by Plato] |
3055 | Xenophanes said the essence of God was spherical and utterly inhuman [Xenophanes, by Diog. Laertius] |
439 | God knows everything, and nothing is impossible for him [Epicharmus] |
408 | Ethiopian gods have black hair, and Thracian gods have red hair [Xenophanes] |
407 | Mortals believe gods are born, and have voices and clothes just like mortals [Xenophanes] |
443 | Human logos is an aspect of divine logos, and is sufficient for successful living [Epicharmus] |