14 ideas
16123 | Whenever you perceive a community of things, you should also hunt out differences in the group [Plato] |
5831 | The new view is that "water" is a name, and has no definition [Schwartz,SP] |
16124 | No one wants to define 'weaving' just for the sake of weaving [Plato] |
16125 | To reveal a nature, divide down, and strip away what it has in common with other things [Plato] |
5829 | We refer to Thales successfully by name, even if all descriptions of him are false [Schwartz,SP] |
5830 | The traditional theory of names says some of the descriptions must be correct [Schwartz,SP] |
5961 | The soul gets its goodness from god, and its evil from previous existence. [Plato] |
16383 | Puzzled Pierre has two mental files about the same object [Recanati on Kripke] |
5826 | The intension of "lemon" is the conjunction of properties associated with it [Schwartz,SP] |
283 | The question of whether or not to persuade comes before the science of persuasion [Plato] |
282 | Non-physical beauty can only be shown clearly by speech [Plato] |
281 | The arts produce good and beautiful things by preserving the mean [Plato] |
22559 | Democracy is the worst of good constitutions, but the best of bad constitutions [Plato, by Aristotle] |
279 | Only divine things can always stay the same, and bodies are not like that [Plato] |