40 ideas
24032 | Clever scholars can obscure things which are obvious even to peasants [Descartes] |
17729 | Examining concepts can recover information obtained through the senses [Jenkins] |
24033 | Most scholastic disputes concern words, where agreeing on meanings would settle them [Descartes] |
24024 | The secret of the method is to recognise which thing in a series is the simplest [Descartes] |
24018 | One truth leads us to another [Descartes] |
17740 | Instead of correspondence of proposition to fact, look at correspondence of its parts [Jenkins] |
24035 | Unity is something shared by many things, so in that respect they are equals [Descartes] |
24036 | I can only see the proportion of two to three if there is a common measure - their unity [Descartes] |
17730 | Combining the concepts of negation and finiteness gives the concept of infinity [Jenkins] |
17719 | Arithmetic concepts are indispensable because they accurately map the world [Jenkins] |
17717 | Senses produce concepts that map the world, and arithmetic is known through these concepts [Jenkins] |
17724 | It is not easy to show that Hume's Principle is analytic or definitive in the required sense [Jenkins] |
24029 | Among the simples are the graspable negations, such as rest and instants [Descartes] |
17727 | We can learn about the world by studying the grounding of our concepts [Jenkins] |
17720 | There's essential, modal, explanatory, conceptual, metaphysical and constitutive dependence [Jenkins, by PG] |
17728 | The concepts we have to use for categorising are ones which map the real world well [Jenkins] |
24030 | 3+4=7 is necessary because we cannot conceive of seven without including three and four [Descartes] |
24019 | If we accept mere probabilities as true we undermine our existing knowledge [Descartes] |
24020 | We all see intuitively that we exist, where intuition is attentive, clear and distinct rational understanding [Descartes] |
24031 | When Socrates doubts, he know he doubts, and that truth is possible [Descartes] |
24025 | Clear and distinct truths must be known all at once (unlike deductions) [Descartes] |
24022 | Our souls possess divine seeds of knowledge, which can bear spontaneous fruit [Descartes] |
17726 | Examining accurate, justified or grounded concepts brings understanding of the world [Jenkins] |
24034 | If someone had only seen the basic colours, they could deduce the others from resemblance [Descartes] |
17734 | It is not enough that intuition be reliable - we need to know why it is reliable [Jenkins] |
24021 | The method starts with clear intuitions, followed by a process of deduction [Descartes] |
17723 | Knowledge is true belief which can be explained just by citing the proposition believed [Jenkins] |
24027 | Nerves and movement originate in the brain, where imagination moves them [Descartes] |
24026 | Our four knowledge faculties are intelligence, imagination, the senses, and memory [Descartes] |
24028 | The force by which we know things is spiritual, and quite distinct from the body [Descartes] |
17718 | Grounded concepts are trustworthy maps of the world [Jenkins] |
17739 | The physical effect of world on brain explains the concepts we possess [Jenkins] |
17731 | Verificationism is better if it says meaningfulness needs concepts grounded in the senses [Jenkins] |
17732 | Success semantics explains representation in terms of success in action [Jenkins] |
17725 | 'Analytic' can be conceptual, or by meaning, or predicate inclusion, or definition... [Jenkins] |
23395 | Mohists desire wealth, population and social order as the best consequences [Mozi, by Norden] |
23394 | If people regarded other states as they did their own, they would never attack them [Mozi] |
23396 | Mozi condemns partiality, which is the cause of all the great harms in the world [Mozi] |
23397 | Those who are against impartiality still prefer impartial protectors [Mozi] |
24023 | All the sciences searching for order and measure are related to mathematics [Descartes] |