21 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] |
6258 | Virtue is the distinctive mark of truth, and its greatest product [Montaigne] |
21642 | If quantification is all substitutional, there is no ontology [Quine] |
1633 | Absolute ontological questions are meaningless, because the answers are circular definitions [Quine] |
6262 | We lack some sense or other, and hence objects may have hidden features [Montaigne] |
18964 | Ontology is relative to both a background theory and a translation manual [Quine] |
18965 | We know what things are by distinguishing them, so identity is part of ontology [Quine] |
6260 | Sceptics say there is truth, but no means of making or testing lasting judgements [Montaigne] |
1634 | Two things are relative - the background theory, and translating the object theory into the background theory [Quine] |
6261 | The soul is in the brain, as shown by head injuries [Montaigne] |
8470 | Reference is inscrutable, because we cannot choose between theories of numbers [Quine, by Orenstein] |
7357 | People who control others with fluent language often end up being hated [Kongzi (Confucius)] |
18963 | Indeterminacy translating 'rabbit' depends on translating individuation terms [Quine] |
7358 | All men prefer outward appearance to true excellence [Kongzi (Confucius)] |
7362 | Humans are similar, but social conventions drive us apart (sages and idiots being the exceptions) [Kongzi (Confucius)] |
7360 | Do not do to others what you would not desire yourself [Kongzi (Confucius)] |
7359 | Excess and deficiency are equally at fault [Kongzi (Confucius)] |
7363 | The virtues of the best people are humility, maganimity, sincerity, diligence, and graciousness [Kongzi (Confucius)] |
7361 | Men of the highest calibre avoid political life completely [Kongzi (Confucius)] |
23393 | Confucianism assumes that all good developments have happened, and there is only one Way [Norden on Kongzi (Confucius)] |