7 ideas
6602 | Philosophy is like a statue which is worshipped but never advances [Bacon] |
19489 | For me, fictions are internally true, without a significant internal or external truth-value [Yablo] |
19490 | Make-believe can help us to reason about facts and scientific procedures [Yablo] |
19491 | 'The clouds are angry' can only mean '...if one were attributing emotions to clouds' [Yablo] |
16724 | The senses deceive, but also show their own errors [Bacon] |
6603 | Nature is revealed when we put it under pressure rather than observe it [Bacon] |
7667 | There are two sides to men - the pleasantly social, and the violent and creative [Diderot, by Berlin] |