10 ideas
21959 | Metaphysics is the most general attempt to make sense of things [Moore,AW] |
4187 | 'There is nothing without a reason why it should be rather than not be' (a generalisation of 'Why?') [Schopenhauer] |
4192 | All necessity arises from causation, which is conditioned; there is no absolute or unconditioned necessity [Schopenhauer] |
4190 | All understanding is an immediate apprehension of the causal relation [Schopenhauer] |
21958 | Appearances are nothing beyond representations, which is transcendental ideality [Moore,AW] |
4042 | Metaphysics requires the idea of people (speakers) located in space and time [Davidson] |
4191 | What we know in ourselves is not a knower but a will [Schopenhauer] |
21368 | The knot of the world is the use of 'I' to refer to both willing and knowing [Schopenhauer] |
4041 | Sentences held true determine the meanings of the words they contain [Davidson] |
4189 | Time may be defined as the possibility of mutually exclusive conditions of the same thing [Schopenhauer] |