36 ideas
6259 | Why can't a wise man doubt everything? [Montaigne] |
6263 | No wisdom could make us comfortably walk a wide beam if it was high in the air [Montaigne] |
3695 | Philosophy is a priori if it is anything [Bonjour] |
6947 | Metaphysics does not rest on facts, but on what we are inclined to believe [Peirce] |
3651 | Perceiving necessary connections is the essence of reasoning [Bonjour] |
6937 | Reason aims to discover the unknown by thinking about the known [Peirce] |
3700 | Coherence can't be validated by appeal to coherence [Bonjour] |
6258 | Virtue is the distinctive mark of truth, and its greatest product [Montaigne] |
21492 | Realism is basic to the scientific method [Peirce] |
6262 | We lack some sense or other, and hence objects may have hidden features [Montaigne] |
6949 | If someone doubted reality, they would not actually feel dissatisfaction [Peirce] |
3697 | The concept of possibility is prior to that of necessity [Bonjour] |
6940 | The feeling of belief shows a habit which will determine our actions [Peirce] |
6941 | We are entirely satisfied with a firm belief, even if it is false [Peirce] |
6942 | We want true beliefs, but obviously we think our beliefs are true [Peirce] |
6943 | A mere question does not stimulate a struggle for belief; there must be a real doubt [Peirce] |
3707 | Our rules of thought can only be judged by pure rational insight [Bonjour] |
3704 | Moderate rationalists believe in fallible a priori justification [Bonjour] |
6598 | We need our beliefs to be determined by some external inhuman permanency [Peirce] |
6944 | Demonstration does not rest on first principles of reason or sensation, but on freedom from actual doubt [Peirce] |
3696 | A priori justification requires understanding but no experience [Bonjour] |
3703 | You can't explain away a priori justification as analyticity, and you can't totally give it up [Bonjour] |
3706 | A priori justification can vary in degree [Bonjour] |
3699 | The induction problem blocks any attempted proof of physical statements [Bonjour] |
6948 | Doubts should be satisfied by some external permanency upon which thinking has no effect [Peirce] |
3701 | Externalist theories of justification don't require believers to have reasons for their beliefs [Bonjour] |
3702 | Externalism means we have no reason to believe, which is strong scepticism [Bonjour] |
6260 | Sceptics say there is truth, but no means of making or testing lasting judgements [Montaigne] |
6945 | Once doubt ceases, there is no point in continuing to argue [Peirce] |
3709 | Induction must go beyond the evidence, in order to explain why the evidence occurred [Bonjour] |
6261 | The soul is in the brain, as shown by head injuries [Montaigne] |
3708 | All thought represents either properties or indexicals [Bonjour] |
3698 | Indeterminacy of translation is actually indeterminacy of meaning and belief [Bonjour] |
6939 | What is true of one piece of copper is true of another (unlike brass) [Peirce] |
6938 | Natural selection might well fill an animal's mind with pleasing thoughts rather than true ones [Peirce] |
6946 | If death is annihilation, belief in heaven is a cheap pleasure with no disappointment [Peirce] |