17 ideas
18270 | Choice suggests that intensions are not needed to ensure classes [Coffa] |
18263 | The semantic tradition aimed to explain the a priori semantically, not by Kantian intuition [Coffa] |
18272 | Platonism defines the a priori in a way that makes it unknowable [Coffa] |
18266 | Mathematics generalises by using variables [Coffa] |
14802 | Physical and psychical laws of mind are either independent, or derived in one or other direction [Peirce] |
7404 | Nations are not obliged to help one-another, but are obliged not to harm one another [Grotius, by Tuck] |
7402 | Everyone has a right of self-preservation, and harming others is usually unjustifiable [Grotius, by Tuck] |
21938 | Democracy needs respect for individuality, but the 'community of friends' implies strict equality [Grotius] |
19845 | A person is free to renounce their state, as long as it is not a moment of crisis [Grotius, by Rousseau] |
22133 | Grotius and Pufendorf based natural law on real (rather than idealised) humanity [Grotius, by Ford,JD] |
7406 | A natural right of self-preservation is balanced by a natural law to avoid unnecessary harm [Grotius, by Tuck] |
7403 | Grotius ignored elaborate natural law theories, preferring a basic right of self-preservation [Grotius, by Tuck] |
23585 | It is permissible in a just cause to capture a place in neutral territory [Grotius] |
14800 | The world is full of variety, but laws seem to produce uniformity [Peirce] |
18279 | Relativity is as absolutist about space-time as Newton was about space [Coffa] |
14801 | Darwinian evolution is chance, with the destruction of bad results [Peirce] |
6892 | Moral principles have some validity without a God commanding obedience [Grotius, by Mautner] |