12 ideas
20768 | Like spiderswebs, dialectical arguments are clever but useless [Ariston, by Diog. Laertius] |
19520 | Evidentialism is not axiomatic; the evidence itself inclines us towards evidentialism [Conee] |
19523 | Reliabilism is poor on reflective judgements about hypothetical cases [Conee] |
19521 | If pure guesses were reliable, reliabilists would have to endorse them [Conee] |
19522 | More than actual reliability is needed, since I may mistakenly doubt what is reliable [Conee] |
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] |
23857 | People in power always try to increase their power [Weil] |
23856 | Spontaneous movements are powerless against organised repression [Weil] |
23859 | True democracy is the subordination of society to the individual [Weil] |
23858 | War is perpetuated by its continual preparations [Weil] |
23860 | Even if a drowning man is doomed, he should keep swimming to the last [Weil] |