6 ideas
14779 | I reason in order to avoid disappointment and surprise [Peirce] |
14777 | That a judgement is true and that we judge it true are quite different things [Peirce] |
14780 | Only study logic if you think your own reasoning is deficient [Peirce] |
14778 | Facts are hard unmoved things, unaffected by what people may think of them [Peirce] |
21131 | Democracy is competition for support of the people, guided by self-interest on all sides [Posner] |
9425 | Lewis later proposed the axioms at the intersection of the best theories (which may be few) [Mumford on Lewis] |