34 ideas
5896 | Speak the truth, for this alone deifies man [Pythagoras, by Porphyry] |
3051 | Pythagoras discovered the numerical relation of sounds on a string [Pythagoras, by Diog. Laertius] |
4262 | If the only aim was consistent beliefs then new evidence and experiments would be irrelevant [Goldman] |
7485 | For Pythagoreans 'one' is not a number, but the foundation of numbers [Pythagoras, by Watson] |
4045 | Children may have three innate principles which enable them to learn to count [Goldman] |
4044 | Rat behaviour reveals a considerable ability to count [Goldman] |
4048 | Infant brains appear to have inbuilt ontological categories [Goldman] |
16066 | Additional or removal of any part changes a thing, so people are never the same person [Epicharmus] |
4043 | Elephants can be correctly identified from as few as three primitive shapes [Goldman] |
4049 | The way in which colour experiences are evoked is physically odd and unpredictable [Goldman] |
4047 | Gestalt psychology proposes inbuilt proximity, similarity, smoothness and closure principles [Goldman] |
8830 | A belief can be justified when the person has forgotten the evidence for it [Goldman] |
6871 | We can't only believe things if we are currently conscious of their justification - there are too many [Goldman] |
6872 | Internalism must cover Forgotten Evidence, which is no longer retrievable from memory [Goldman] |
6874 | Internal justification needs both mental stability and time to compute coherence [Goldman] |
8832 | If justified beliefs are well-formed beliefs, then animals and young children have them [Goldman] |
6873 | Coherent justification seems to require retrieving all our beliefs simultaneously [Goldman] |
8829 | Justification depends on the reliability of its cause, where reliable processes tend to produce truth [Goldman] |
6875 | Reliability involves truth, and truth is external [Goldman] |
436 | A dog seems handsome to another a dog, and even a pig to another pig [Epicharmus] |
8831 | Introspection is really retrospection; my pain is justified by a brief causal history [Goldman] |
3053 | Pythagoras taught that virtue is harmony, and health, and universal good, and God [Pythagoras, by Diog. Laertius] |
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] |
5244 | For Pythagoreans, justice is simply treating all people the same [Pythagoras, by Aristotle] |
441 | Against a villain, villainy is not a useless weapon [Epicharmus] |
644 | For Pythagoreans the entire universe is made of numbers [Pythagoras, by Aristotle] |
638 | Pythagoreans define timeliness, justice and marriage in terms of numbers [Pythagoras, by Aristotle] |
553 | Pythagoreans think mathematical principles are the principles of all of nature [Pythagoras, by Aristotle] |
554 | Pythagoreans say things imitate numbers, but Plato says things participate in numbers [Pythagoras, by Aristotle] |
375 | When musical harmony and rhythm were discovered, similar features were seen in bodily movement [Pythagoras, by Plato] |
439 | God knows everything, and nothing is impossible for him [Epicharmus] |
7467 | The modern idea of an immortal soul was largely created by Pythagoras [Pythagoras, by Watson] |
443 | Human logos is an aspect of divine logos, and is sufficient for successful living [Epicharmus] |