14 ideas
3269 | If your life is to be meaningful as part of some large thing, the large thing must be meaningful [Nagel] |
18859 | Metaphysics is a quest for truthmakers [Tallant] |
18861 | Maybe number statements can be paraphrased into quantifications plus identities [Tallant] |
18866 | Maybe only 'positive' truths need truth-makers [Tallant] |
18860 | A truthmaker is the minimal portion of reality that will do the job [Tallant] |
18863 | What is the truthmaker for a possible new power? [Tallant] |
18864 | The wisdom of Plato and of Socrates are not the same property [Tallant] |
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] |
18865 | Substance must have two properties: individuation, and property-bearing [Tallant] |
17944 | 'Episteme' is better translated as 'understanding' than as 'knowledge' [Nehamas] |
3270 | Justifications come to an end when we want them to [Nagel] |
18862 | Are propositions all the thoughts and sentences that are possible? [Tallant] |
3268 | If a small brief life is absurd, then so is a long and large one [Nagel] |