34 ideas
23247 | The need to act produces consciousness, and practical reason is the root of all reason [Fichte] |
23232 | Sufficient reason makes the transition from the particular to the general [Fichte] |
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] |
23227 | Each object has a precise number of properties, each to a precise degree [Fichte] |
23228 | The principle of activity and generation is found in a self-moving basic force [Fichte] |
9362 | Necessary truths are those we will maintain no matter what [Lewis,CI] |
23241 | I am myself, but not the external object; so I only sense myself, and not the object [Fichte] |
21966 | Self-consciousness is the basis of knowledge, and knowing something is knowing myself [Fichte] |
21967 | There is nothing to say about anything which is outside my consciousness [Fichte] |
21969 | Awareness of reality comes from the free activity of consciousness [Fichte] |
9365 | We can maintain a priori principles come what may, but we can also change them [Lewis,CI] |
23231 | I immediately know myself, and anything beyond that is an inference [Fichte] |
23246 | Faith is not knowledge; it is a decision of the will [Fichte] |
23245 | Knowledge can't be its own foundation; there has to be regress of higher and higher authorities [Fichte] |
23242 | Consciousness has two parts, passively receiving sensation, and actively causing productions [Fichte] |
23240 | We can't know by sight or hearing without realising that we are doing so [Fichte] |
23243 | Consciousness of external things is always accompanied by an unnoticed consciousness of self [Fichte] |
23237 | The capacity for freedom is above the laws of nature, with its own power of purpose and will [Fichte] |
23244 | Forming purposes is absolutely free, and produces something from nothing [Fichte] |
23235 | I want independent control of the fundamental cause of my decisions [Fichte] |
23230 | Nature contains a fundamental force of thought [Fichte] |
9361 | We have to separate the mathematical from physical phenomena by abstraction [Lewis,CI] |
23233 | The will is awareness of one of our inner natural forces [Fichte] |
23234 | I cannot change the nature which has been determined for me [Fichte] |
23239 | The self is, apart from outward behaviour, a drive in your nature [Fichte] |
23238 | If life lacks love it becomes destruction [Fichte] |
21093 | Friendship without community spirit misses out on the main part of virtue [Hume] |
23236 | Freedom means making yourself become true to your essential nature [Fichte] |
21091 | It would be absurd if even a free constitution did not impose restraints, for the public good [Hume] |
21092 | Nobility either share in the power of the whole, or they compose the power of the whole [Hume] |
23229 | Nature is wholly interconnected, and the tiniest change affects everything [Fichte] |
9363 | Science seeks classification which will discover laws, essences, and predictions [Lewis,CI] |