10 ideas
19404 | Necessities rest on contradiction, and contingencies on sufficient reason [Leibniz] |
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] |
21315 | A tree remains the same in the popular sense, but not in the strict philosophical sense [Butler] |
17944 | 'Episteme' is better translated as 'understanding' than as 'knowledge' [Nehamas] |
21317 | Despite consciousness fluctuating, we are aware that it belongs to one person [Butler] |
21313 | If consciousness of events makes our identity, then if we have forgotten them we didn't exist then [Butler] |
21314 | Consciousness presupposes personal identity, so it cannot constitute it [Butler] |
21318 | If the self changes, we have no responsibilities, and no interest in past or future [Butler] |
19403 | Each of the infinite possible worlds has its own laws, and the individuals contain those laws [Leibniz] |