15 ideas
8868 | Objective truth arises from interpersonal communication [Davidson] |
3035 | Dialectic involves conversations with short questions and brief answers [Diog. Laertius] |
8867 | A belief requires understanding the distinctions of true-and-false, and appearance-and-reality [Davidson] |
1816 | Sceptics say demonstration depends on self-demonstrating things, or indemonstrable things [Diog. Laertius] |
1819 | Scepticism has two dogmas: that nothing is definable, and every argument has an opposite argument [Diog. Laertius] |
3064 | When sceptics say that nothing is definable, or all arguments have an opposite, they are being dogmatic [Diog. Laertius] |
10347 | Objectivity is intersubjectivity [Davidson] |
3033 | Induction moves from some truths to similar ones, by contraries or consequents [Diog. Laertius] |
8866 | If we know other minds through behaviour, but not our own, we should assume they aren't like me [Davidson] |
10346 | Knowing other minds rests on knowing both one's own mind and the external world [Davidson, by Dummett] |
8870 | Content of thought is established through communication, so knowledge needs other minds [Davidson] |
8869 | The principle of charity attributes largely consistent logic and largely true beliefs to speakers [Davidson] |
1838 | Cyrenaic pleasure is a motion, but Epicurean pleasure is a condition [Diog. Laertius] |
1769 | Cynics believe that when a man wishes for nothing he is like the gods [Diog. Laertius] |
5467 | Euler said nature is instrinsically passive, and minds cause change [Euler, by Ellis] |