9 ideas
6782 | Realism is the only philosophy of science that doesn't make the success of science a miracle [Putnam] |
4187 | 'There is nothing without a reason why it should be rather than not be' (a generalisation of 'Why?') [Schopenhauer] |
8920 | Equivalence relations are reflexive, symmetric and transitive, and classify similar objects [Lipschutz] |
22181 | Putnam says anti-realism is a bad explanation of accurate predictions [Putnam, by Okasha] |
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] |
4189 | Time may be defined as the possibility of mutually exclusive conditions of the same thing [Schopenhauer] |