14 ideas
19441 | All philosophies presuppose their historical moment, and arise from it [Feuerbach] |
19442 | I don't study Plato for his own sake; the primary aim is always understanding [Feuerbach] |
4037 | Ockham's Razor is the principle that we need reasons to believe in entities [Mellor/Oliver] |
19445 | A dialectician has to be his own opponent [Feuerbach] |
19444 | Each proposition has an antithesis, and truth exists as its refutation [Feuerbach] |
19443 | Truth forges an impersonal unity between people [Feuerbach] |
19400 | Possibles demand existence, so as many of them as possible must actually exist [Leibniz] |
19401 | God's sufficient reason for choosing reality is in the fitness or perfection of possibilities [Leibniz] |
19446 | To our consciousness it is language which looks unreal [Feuerbach] |
4027 | Properties are respects in which particular objects may be alike or differ [Mellor/Oliver] |
4029 | Nominalists ask why we should postulate properties at all [Mellor/Oliver] |
19402 | The actual universe is the richest composite of what is possible [Leibniz] |
19447 | The Absolute is the 'and' which unites 'spirit and nature' [Feuerbach] |
4039 | Abstractions lack causes, effects and spatio-temporal locations [Mellor/Oliver] |