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221 | Absolute ideas, such as the Good and the Beautiful, cannot be known by us [Plato] |
Full Idea: The absolute good and the beautiful and all which we conceive to be absolute ideas are unknown to us. | |
From: Plato (Parmenides [c.364 BCE], 134c) |
18916 | Facts are not in the world - they are properties of the world [Engelbretsen] |
Full Idea: Facts must be viewed as properties of the world - not as things in the world. | |
From: George Engelbretsen (Trees, Terms and Truth [2005], 4) | |
A reaction: Not sure I'm happy with either of these. Do animals grasp facts? If not, are they (as Strawson said) just the truths expressed by true sentences? That is not a clear idea either, given that facts are not the sentences themselves. Facts overlap. |