8 ideas
20768 | Like spiderswebs, dialectical arguments are clever but useless [Ariston, by Diog. Laertius] |
21699 | Russell offered a paraphrase of definite description, to avoid the commitment to objects [Quine] |
13432 | The essence of a circle is the equality of its radii [Leibniz] |
21700 | Taking sentences as the unit of meaning makes useful paraphrasing possible [Quine] |
21701 | Knowing a word is knowing the meanings of sentences which contain it [Quine] |
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] |
12696 | Bodies are recreated in motion, and don't exist in intervening instants [Leibniz] |