10 ideas
22026 | Philosophy is homesickness - the urge to be at home everywhere [Novalis] |
10502 | We can rise by degrees through abstraction, with higher levels representing more things [Arnauld,A/Nicole,P] |
3570 | Maybe knowledge is belief which 'tracks' the truth [Nozick, by Williams,M] |
18258 | We can only know the exterior world via our ideas [Arnauld,A/Nicole,P] |
2748 | A true belief isn't knowledge if it would be believed even if false. It should 'track the truth' [Nozick, by Dancy,J] |
16784 | Forms make things distinct and explain the properties, by pure form, or arrangement of parts [Arnauld,A/Nicole,P] |
10499 | We know by abstraction because we only understand composite things a part at a time [Arnauld,A/Nicole,P] |
10501 | A triangle diagram is about all triangles, if some features are ignored [Arnauld,A/Nicole,P] |
10500 | No one denies that a line has width, but we can just attend to its length [Arnauld,A/Nicole,P] |
19591 | Desire for perfection is an illness, if it turns against what is imperfect [Novalis] |