12 ideas
22752 | Reasoning is impossible without a preconception [Sext.Empiricus] |
18935 | Semantic theory should specify when an act of naming is successful [Sawyer] |
18945 | Millians say a name just means its object [Sawyer] |
18934 | Sentences with empty names can be understood, be co-referential, and even be true [Sawyer] |
18938 | Frege's compositional account of truth-vaues makes 'Pegasus doesn't exist' neither true nor false [Sawyer] |
18947 | Definites descriptions don't solve the empty names problem, because the properties may not exist [Sawyer] |
6000 | The goal is rationality in the selection of things according to nature [Diogenes of Babylon, by Blank] |
22754 | Saying the good is useful or choiceworth or happiness-creating is not the good, but a feature of it [Sext.Empiricus] |
5999 | The good is what is perfect by nature [Diogenes of Babylon, by Blank] |
22755 | Like a warming fire, what is good by nature should be good for everyone [Sext.Empiricus] |
22756 | If a desire is itself desirable, then we shouldn't desire it, as achieving it destroys it [Sext.Empiricus] |
6001 | Justice is a disposition to distribute according to desert [Diogenes of Babylon, by Blank] |