21 ideas
9271 | Human knowledge may not produce well-being; the examined life may not be worth living [Gray] |
20768 | Like spiderswebs, dialectical arguments are clever but useless [Ariston, by Diog. Laertius] |
17486 | Supervenience is simply modally robust property co-variance [Hendry] |
9275 | Knowledge does not need minds or nervous systems; it is found in all living things [Gray] |
17481 | Nuclear charge (plus laws) explains electron structure and spectrum, but not vice versa [Hendry] |
9276 | The will hardly ever does anything; most of our life just happens to us [Gray] |
3049 | The chief good is indifference to what lies midway between virtue and vice [Ariston, by Diog. Laertius] |
3549 | Ariston says rules are useless for the virtuous and the non-virtuous [Ariston, by Annas] |
9278 | Nowadays we identify the free life with the good life [Gray] |
17478 | Maybe two kinds are the same if there is no change of entropy on isothermal mixing [Hendry] |
17484 | Maybe the nature of water is macroscopic, and not in the microstructure [Hendry] |
17479 | The nature of an element must survive chemical change, so it is the nucleus, not the electrons [Hendry] |
17485 | Maybe water is the smallest part of it that still counts as water (which is H2O molecules) [Hendry] |
17482 | Compounds can differ with the same collection of atoms, so structure matters too [Hendry] |
17483 | Water continuously changes, with new groupings of molecules [Hendry] |
17476 | Elements survive chemical change, and are tracked to explain direction and properties [Hendry] |
17477 | Defining elements by atomic number allowed atoms of an element to have different masses [Hendry] |
17480 | Generally it is nuclear charge (not nuclear mass) which determines behaviour [Hendry] |
9280 | Over forty percent of the Earth's living tissue is human [Gray] |
9272 | Without Christianity we lose the idea that human history has a meaning [Gray] |
9279 | What was our original sin, and how could Christ's suffering redeem it? [Gray] |