10 ideas
16567 | Scientists know everything about nothing, philosophers nothing about everything [Sagan,D] |
23651 | Universals are not objects of sense and cannot be imagined - but can be conceived [Reid] |
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] |
23650 | Only individuals exist [Reid] |
23649 | No one thinks two sheets possess a single whiteness, but all agree they are both white [Reid] |
11874 | Real identity admits of no degrees [Reid] |
17944 | 'Episteme' is better translated as 'understanding' than as 'knowledge' [Nehamas] |
23652 | We must first conceive things before we can consider them [Reid] |
23648 | First we notice and name attributes ('abstracting'); then we notice that subjects share them ('generalising') [Reid] |