16 ideas
14775 | Numbers are just names devised for counting [Peirce] |
10180 | Mathematicians do not study objects, but relations between objects [Poincaré] |
14776 | That two two-eyed people must have four eyes is a statement about numbers, not a fact [Peirce] |
16066 | Additional or removal of any part changes a thing, so people are never the same person [Epicharmus] |
14770 | Reasoning is based on statistical induction, so it can't achieve certainty or precision [Peirce] |
14774 | Innate truths are very uncertain and full of error, so they certainly have exceptions [Peirce] |
14771 | Only reason can establish whether some deliverance of revelation really is inspired [Peirce] |
14773 | A truth is hard for us to understand if it rests on nothing but inspiration [Peirce] |
14772 | If we decide an idea is inspired, we still can't be sure we have got the idea right [Peirce] |
436 | A dog seems handsome to another a dog, and even a pig to another pig [Epicharmus] |
14769 | Only imagination can connect phenomena together in a rational way [Peirce] |
442 | Pleasures are like pirates - if you are caught they drown you in a sea of pleasures [Epicharmus] |
440 | Hands wash hands; give that you may get [Epicharmus] |
441 | Against a villain, villainy is not a useless weapon [Epicharmus] |
439 | God knows everything, and nothing is impossible for him [Epicharmus] |
443 | Human logos is an aspect of divine logos, and is sufficient for successful living [Epicharmus] |