7 ideas
22764 | Ordinary speech is not exact about what is true; we say we are digging a well before the well exists [Sext.Empiricus] |
22762 | Some properties are inseparable from a thing, such as the length, breadth and depth of a body [Sext.Empiricus] |
14289 | There are some assertable conditionals one would reject if one learned the antecedent [Jackson, by Edgington] |
22759 | Fools, infants and madmen may speak truly, but do not know [Sext.Empiricus] |
22760 | Madmen are reliable reporters of what appears to them [Sext.Empiricus] |
22200 | If you eliminate the impossible, the truth will remain, even if it is weird [Conan Doyle] |
22763 | We can only dream of a winged man if we have experienced men and some winged thing [Sext.Empiricus] |