11 ideas
21750 | Science is sympathetic to truth as correspondence, since it depends on observation [Quine] |
12899 | The timid student has knowledge without belief, lacking confidence in their correct answer [Lewis] |
12897 | To say S knows P, but cannot eliminate not-P, sounds like a contradiction [Lewis] |
12898 | Justification is neither sufficient nor necessary for knowledge [Lewis] |
12895 | Knowing is context-sensitive because the domain of quantification varies [Lewis, by Cohen,S] |
19562 | We have knowledge if alternatives are eliminated, but appropriate alternatives depend on context [Lewis, by Cohen,S] |
21748 | More careful inductions gradually lead to the hypothetico-deductive method [Quine] |
21749 | Altruistic values concern other persons, and ceremonial values concern practices [Quine] |
21751 | Love seems to diminish with distance from oneself [Quine] |
1748 | Archelaus was the first person to say that the universe is boundless [Archelaus, by Diog. Laertius] |
5989 | Archelaus said life began in a primeval slime [Archelaus, by Schofield] |