20 ideas
4424 | A warlike philosopher challenges problems to single combat [Nietzsche] |
14775 | Numbers are just names devised for counting [Peirce] |
14776 | That two two-eyed people must have four eyes is a statement about numbers, not a fact [Peirce] |
14770 | Reasoning is based on statistical induction, so it can't achieve certainty or precision [Peirce] |
22049 | Transcendental idealism aims to explain objectivity through subjectivity [Bowie] |
22055 | The Idealists saw the same unexplained spontaneity in Kant's judgements and choices [Bowie] |
22054 | German Idealism tried to stop oppositions of appearances/things and receptivity/spontaneity [Bowie] |
22056 | Crucial to Idealism is the idea of continuity between receptivity and spontaneous judgement [Bowie] |
14774 | Innate truths are very uncertain and full of error, so they certainly have exceptions [Peirce] |
14773 | A truth is hard for us to understand if it rests on nothing but inspiration [Peirce] |
14772 | If we decide an idea is inspired, we still can't be sure we have got the idea right [Peirce] |
14771 | Only reason can establish whether some deliverance of revelation really is inspired [Peirce] |
14769 | Only imagination can connect phenomena together in a rational way [Peirce] |
2886 | The distinction between egoistic and non-egoistic acts is absurd [Nietzsche] |
4426 | A bad result distorts one's judgement about the virtue of what one has done [Nietzsche] |
4425 | The overcoming of pity I count among the noble virtues [Nietzsche] |
20132 | To become what you are you must have no self-awareness [Nietzsche] |
20144 | Eternal recurrence is the highest attainable affirmation [Nietzsche] |
2889 | One repays a teacher badly if one remains only a pupil [Nietzsche] |
2887 | I am not an atheist because of reasoning or evidence, but because of instinct [Nietzsche] |