11 ideas
21900 | Deleuze relies on Spinoza (immanence), Bergson (duration), and difference (Nietzsche) [May] |
9161 | Maybe reasonableness requires circular justifications - that is one coherentist view [Field,H] |
13007 | Archimedes defined a straight line as the shortest distance between two points [Archimedes, by Leibniz] |
9160 | Lots of propositions are default reasonable, but the a priori ones are empirically indefeasible [Field,H] |
9164 | We treat basic rules as if they were indefeasible and a priori, with no interest in counter-evidence [Field,H] |
9165 | Reliability only makes a rule reasonable if we place a value on the truth produced by reliable processes [Field,H] |
9162 | Believing nothing, or only logical truths, is very reliable, but we want a lot more than that [Field,H] |
9166 | People vary in their epistemological standards, and none of them is 'correct' [Field,H] |
9163 | If we only use induction to assess induction, it is empirically indefeasible, and hence a priori [Field,H] |
21898 | For existentialists the present is empty without the pull of the future and weight of the past [May] |
21905 | Liberal theory starts from the governed, not from the governor [May] |