9 ideas
21552 | Common speech is vague; its vocabulary and syntax must be modified, for precision [Russell] |
22752 | Reasoning is impossible without a preconception [Sext.Empiricus] |
21551 | Empirical words need ostensive definition, which makes them egocentric [Russell] |
21550 | Science reduces indexicals to a minimum, but they can never be eliminated from empirical matters [Russell] |
7861 | Libet says the processes initiated in the cortex can still be consciously changed [Libet, by Papineau] |
6660 | Libet found conscious choice 0.2 secs before movement, well after unconscious 'readiness potential' [Libet, by Lowe] |
22754 | Saying the good is useful or choiceworth or happiness-creating is not the good, but a feature of it [Sext.Empiricus] |
22755 | Like a warming fire, what is good by nature should be good for everyone [Sext.Empiricus] |
22756 | If a desire is itself desirable, then we shouldn't desire it, as achieving it destroys it [Sext.Empiricus] |