17 ideas
14767 | The demonstrations of the metaphysicians are all moonshine [Peirce] |
14764 | I am saturated with the spirit of physical science [Peirce] |
2661 | Dialectic is speech cast in the form of logical argument [Cicero] |
2673 | There cannot be more than one truth [Cicero] |
2669 | Dialectic assumes that all statements are either true or false, but self-referential paradoxes are a big problem [Cicero] |
14330 | To be realists about dispositions, we can only discuss them through their categorical basis [Armstrong] |
14768 | Infallibility in science is just a joke [Peirce] |
2664 | If we have complete healthy senses, what more could the gods give us? [Cicero] |
6498 | Armstrong suggests secondary qualities are blurred primary qualities [Armstrong, by Robinson,H] |
14765 | Association of ideas is the best philosophical idea of the prescientific age [Peirce] |
2665 | How can there be a memory of what is false? [Cicero] |
20800 | Every true presentation can have a false one of the same quality [Cicero] |
14766 | Duns Scotus offers perhaps the best logic and metaphysics for modern physical science [Peirce] |
5690 | A mental state without belief refutes self-intimation; a belief with no state refutes infallibility [Armstrong, by Shoemaker] |
5493 | If pains are defined causally, and research shows that the causal role is physical, then pains are physical [Armstrong, by Lycan] |
4600 | Armstrong and Lewis see functionalism as an identity of the function and its realiser [Armstrong, by Heil] |
2672 | Virtues must be very detached, to avoid being motivated by pleasure [Cicero] |