15 ideas
3269 | If your life is to be meaningful as part of some large thing, the large thing must be meaningful [Nagel] |
14767 | The demonstrations of the metaphysicians are all moonshine [Peirce] |
14764 | I am saturated with the spirit of physical science [Peirce] |
9358 | There are several logics, none of which will ever derive falsehoods from truth [Lewis,CI] |
9357 | Excluded middle is just our preference for a simplified dichotomy in experience [Lewis,CI] |
9364 | Names represent a uniformity in experience, or they name nothing [Lewis,CI] |
9362 | Necessary truths are those we will maintain no matter what [Lewis,CI] |
14768 | Infallibility in science is just a joke [Peirce] |
9365 | We can maintain a priori principles come what may, but we can also change them [Lewis,CI] |
14765 | Association of ideas is the best philosophical idea of the prescientific age [Peirce] |
3270 | Justifications come to an end when we want them to [Nagel] |
14766 | Duns Scotus offers perhaps the best logic and metaphysics for modern physical science [Peirce] |
9361 | We have to separate the mathematical from physical phenomena by abstraction [Lewis,CI] |
3268 | If a small brief life is absurd, then so is a long and large one [Nagel] |
9363 | Science seeks classification which will discover laws, essences, and predictions [Lewis,CI] |