28 ideas
15105 | F(x) walked into a bar. The barman said.. [Sommers,W] |
12408 | Sartre to Waitress: Coffee with no cream, please... [Sommers,W] |
12397 | Said Plato: 'The things that we feel... [Sommers,W] |
13768 | Validity can preserve certainty in mathematics, but conditionals about contingents are another matter [Edgington] |
13770 | There are many different conditional mental states, and different conditional speech acts [Edgington] |
13764 | Are conditionals truth-functional - do the truth values of A and B determine the truth value of 'If A, B'? [Edgington] |
13765 | 'If A,B' must entail ¬(A & ¬B); otherwise we could have A true, B false, and If A,B true, invalidating modus ponens [Edgington] |
12407 | Barman to Descartes: Would you like another drink?... [Sommers,W] |
12399 | There was a young student called Fred... [Sommers,W] |
20963 | A philosopher and his wife are out for a drive... [Sommers,W] |
12404 | Dear Sir, Your astonishment's odd.... [Sommers,W] |
12403 | There once was a man who said: 'God... [Sommers,W] |
12402 | ..But if he's a student of Berkeley... [Sommers,W] |
12409 | The philosopher Berkeley once said.. [Sommers,W] |
14694 | "My dog's got synaesthesia." How does he smell? ..... [Sommers,W] |
12401 | A toper who spies in the distance... [Sommers,W] |
12410 | There once was a man who said 'Damn!... [Sommers,W] |
9392 | How do behaviourists greet each other? [Sommers,W] |
22480 | Possessing the virtue of justice disposes a person to good practical rationality [Foot] |
22477 | Calling a knife or farmer or speech or root good does not involve attitudes or feelings [Foot] |
22478 | The essential thing is the 'needs' of plants and animals, and their operative parts [Foot] |
22479 | Observing justice is necessary to humans, like hunting to wolves or dancing to bees [Foot] |
12405 | 'If you're aristocratic,' said Nietzsche... [Sommers,W] |
9391 | Why do anarchists drink herbal tea? [Sommers,W] |
12400 | Cries the maid: 'You must marry me Hume!'... [Sommers,W] |
16527 | Causation - we all thought we knew it/ Till Hume came along and saw through it/…. [Sommers,W] |
17592 | The barman called 'Time!', and Augustine said..... [Sommers,W] |
15208 | The past, present and future walked into a bar.... [Sommers,W] |