13 ideas
14782 | Philosophy is an experimental science, resting on common experience [Peirce] |
14787 | Self-contradiction doesn't reveal impossibility; it is inductive impossibility which reveals self-contradiction [Peirce] |
14783 | Logic, unlike mathematics, is not hypothetical; it asserts categorical ends from hypothetical means [Peirce] |
14788 | Mathematics is close to logic, but is even more abstract [Peirce] |
17945 | Forms are not a theory of universals, but an attempt to explain how predication is possible [Nehamas] |
17946 | Only Tallness really is tall, and other inferior tall things merely participate in the tallness [Nehamas] |
12712 | Substance is that which can act [Leibniz] |
14786 | Some logical possibility concerns single propositions, but there is also compatibility between propositions [Peirce] |
17944 | 'Episteme' is better translated as 'understanding' than as 'knowledge' [Nehamas] |
14789 | Experience is indeed our only source of knowledge, provided we include inner experience [Peirce] |
14785 | The world is one of experience, but experiences are always located among our ideas [Peirce] |
12737 | Nature can be fully explained by final causes alone, or by efficient causes alone [Leibniz] |
14784 | Ethics is the science of aims [Peirce] |