11 ideas
14779 | I reason in order to avoid disappointment and surprise [Peirce] |
4187 | 'There is nothing without a reason why it should be rather than not be' (a generalisation of 'Why?') [Schopenhauer] |
14777 | That a judgement is true and that we judge it true are quite different things [Peirce] |
14780 | Only study logic if you think your own reasoning is deficient [Peirce] |
14778 | Facts are hard unmoved things, unaffected by what people may think of them [Peirce] |
4192 | All necessity arises from causation, which is conditioned; there is no absolute or unconditioned necessity [Schopenhauer] |
4190 | All understanding is an immediate apprehension of the causal relation [Schopenhauer] |
4191 | What we know in ourselves is not a knower but a will [Schopenhauer] |
21368 | The knot of the world is the use of 'I' to refer to both willing and knowing [Schopenhauer] |
23282 | If all that matters in morality is motive and intention, that makes moral luck irrelevant [Williams,B] |
4189 | Time may be defined as the possibility of mutually exclusive conditions of the same thing [Schopenhauer] |