12 ideas
14759 | A thing is simply a long event, linked by qualities, and spatio-temporal unity [Broad] |
14963 | Surely the past phases of a thing are not parts of the thing? [Broad] |
11842 | If short-lived happenings like car crashes are 'events', why not long-lived events like Dover Cliffs? [Broad] |
7628 | Broad rejects the inferential component of the representative theory [Broad, by Maund] |
6012 | We must choose in which of the virtues we wish to excel [Panaetius] |
6013 | Panaetius said we should live according to our natural starting-points [Panaetius, by Asmis] |
6014 | Panaetius identified courage with great-mindedness, preferring civic courage to military [Panaetius, by Asmis] |
18202 | The concept of a field gradually replaced the substances in explaining relations between charges [Einstein/Infeld] |
8160 | The present and past exist, but the future does not [Broad, by Dummett] |
14609 | We could say present and past exist, but not future, so that each event adds to the total history [Broad] |
22933 | We imagine the present as a spotlight, moving across events from past to future [Broad] |
5888 | Souls are born, since they are sensitive and inherited, so they must perish [Panaetius, by Cicero] |