18 ideas
23825 | We seek truth only because it is good [Weil] |
4742 | Correspondence may be one-many or many one, as when either p or q make 'p or q' true [Armstrong] |
10152 | Set theory and logic are fairy tales, but still worth studying [Tarski] |
9497 | Without modality, Armstrong falls back on fictionalism to support counterfactual laws [Bird on Armstrong] |
15550 | Properties are contingently existing beings with multiple locations in space and time [Armstrong, by Lewis] |
10151 | I am a deeply convinced nominalist [Tarski] |
4743 | The truth-maker for a truth must necessitate that truth [Armstrong] |
23826 | Beauty, goodness and truth are only achieved by applying full attention [Weil] |
23833 | The good is a nothingness, and yet real [Weil] |
23808 | There are two goods - the absolute good we want, and the reachable opposite of evil [Weil] |
23831 | The essence of power is illusory prestige [Weil] |
23830 | A group is only dangerous if it endorses an abstract entity [Weil] |
23809 | Our only social duty is to try to limit evil [Weil] |
23807 | The collective is the one and only object of false idolatry [Weil] |
23810 | Charity is the only love, and you can feel that for a country (a place with traditions), but not a nation [Weil] |
23811 | If effort is from necessity rather than for a good, it is slavery [Weil] |
4798 | In recent writings, Armstrong makes a direct identification of necessitation with causation [Armstrong, by Psillos] |
23765 | The soul is the intrinsic value of a human [Weil] |