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All the ideas for 'Truth (frags)', 'Sentences' and '26: Oracles in Decline'

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11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 3. Idealism / a. Idealism

5958	The sun is always bright; it doesn't become bright when it emerges [Plutarch]
	Full Idea: The sun doesn't become bright when it emerges from the clouds; it always is bright.
	From: Plutarch (26: Oracles in Decline [c.85], §39)
	A reaction: Not an argument, but a nice appeal to common sense, like Russell's example of the cat that disappears behind the furniture and then reappears. To disagree with Plutarch here strikes me as the road to philosophical absurdity.

29. Religion / B. Monotheistic Religion / 4. Christianity / d. Heresy

16711	Heretics should be eradicated like wolves [Aquinas]
	Full Idea: Heretics are wolves …and therefore ought to be eradicated.
	From: Thomas Aquinas (Sentences [1264], IV.13.2.3sc), quoted by Robert Pasnau - Metaphysical Themes 1274-1671 20.2