10 ideas
20768 | Like spiderswebs, dialectical arguments are clever but useless [Ariston, by Diog. Laertius] |
15642 | If kinds depend only on what can be observed, many underlying essences might produce the same kind [Eagle] |
15645 | Nominal essence are the observable properties of things [Eagle] |
15643 | Nominal essence mistakenly gives equal weight to all underlying properties that produce appearances [Eagle] |
6000 | The goal is rationality in the selection of things according to nature [Diogenes of Babylon, by Blank] |
5999 | The good is what is perfect by nature [Diogenes of Babylon, by Blank] |
3049 | The chief good is indifference to what lies midway between virtue and vice [Ariston, by Diog. Laertius] |
6001 | Justice is a disposition to distribute according to desert [Diogenes of Babylon, by Blank] |
3549 | Ariston says rules are useless for the virtuous and the non-virtuous [Ariston, by Annas] |
15641 | Kinds are fixed by the essential properties of things - the properties that make it that kind of thing [Eagle] |