12 ideas
20349 | Metaphysics aims at the essence of things, and a system to show how this explains other truths [Richardson] |
20351 | Metaphysics needs systems, because analysis just obsesses over details [Richardson] |
20350 | Metaphysics generalises the data, to get at the ontology [Richardson] |
15457 | Interdefinition is useless by itself, but if we grasp one separately, we have them both [Lewis] |
15400 | We must avoid circularity between what is intrinsic and what is natural [Lewis, by Cameron] |
15458 | A property is 'intrinsic' iff it can never differ between duplicates [Lewis] |
15459 | Ellipsoidal stars seem to have an intrinsic property which depends on other objects [Lewis] |
21093 | Friendship without community spirit misses out on the main part of virtue [Hume] |
20356 | Humans dominate because, unlike other animals, they have a synthesis of conflicting drives [Richardson] |
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] |
20366 | A mind that could see cause and effect as a continuum would deny cause and effect [Richardson] |