17 ideas
20768 | Like spiderswebs, dialectical arguments are clever but useless [Ariston, by Diog. Laertius] |
13437 | A CAR and its major PART can become identical, yet seem to have different properties [Gallois] |
16066 | Additional or removal of any part changes a thing, so people are never the same person [Epicharmus] |
16233 | Gallois hoped to clarify identity through time, but seems to make talk of it impossible [Hawley on Gallois] |
16025 | If things change they become different - but then no one thing undergoes the change! [Gallois] |
16026 | 4D: time is space-like; a thing is its history; past and future are real; or things extend in time [Gallois] |
14755 | Gallois is committed to identity with respect to times, and denial of simple identity [Gallois, by Sider] |
16231 | Occasional Identity: two objects can be identical at one time, and different at others [Gallois, by Hawley] |
16027 | If two things are equal, each side involves a necessity, so the equality is necessary [Gallois] |
436 | A dog seems handsome to another a dog, and even a pig to another pig [Epicharmus] |
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] |
3049 | The chief good is indifference to what lies midway between virtue and vice [Ariston, by Diog. Laertius] |
441 | Against a villain, villainy is not a useless weapon [Epicharmus] |
3549 | Ariston says rules are useless for the virtuous and the non-virtuous [Ariston, by Annas] |
439 | God knows everything, and nothing is impossible for him [Epicharmus] |
443 | Human logos is an aspect of divine logos, and is sufficient for successful living [Epicharmus] |