43 ideas
12124 | Metaphysics is the best knowledge, because it is the simplest [Bacon] |
12123 | Natural history supports physical knowledge, which supports metaphysical knowledge [Bacon] |
12119 | Physics studies transitory matter; metaphysics what is abstracted and necessary [Bacon] |
12120 | Physics is of material and efficient causes, metaphysics of formal and final causes [Bacon] |
15105 | F(x) walked into a bar. The barman said.. [Sommers,W] |
4568 | If 'Queen of England' does not refer if there is no queen, its meaning can't refer if there is one [Cooper,DE] |
12408 | Sartre to Waitress: Coffee with no cream, please... [Sommers,W] |
12397 | Said Plato: 'The things that we feel... [Sommers,W] |
4574 | If some peoples do not have categories like time or cause, they can't be essential features of rationality [Cooper,DE] |
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] |
12409 | The philosopher Berkeley once said.. [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] |
14694 | "My dog's got synaesthesia." How does he smell? ..... [Sommers,W] |
12121 | We don't assume there is no land, because we can only see sea [Bacon] |
12401 | A toper who spies in the distance... [Sommers,W] |
4573 | If it is claimed that language correlates with culture, we must be able to identify the two independently [Cooper,DE] |
4575 | A person's language doesn't prove their concepts, but how are concepts deduced apart from language? [Cooper,DE] |
12117 | Science moves up and down between inventions of causes, and experiments [Bacon] |
12127 | Many different theories will fit the observed facts [Bacon] |
12126 | People love (unfortunately) extreme generality, rather than particular knowledge [Bacon] |
12410 | There once was a man who said 'Damn!... [Sommers,W] |
4561 | Many sentences set up dispositions which are irrelevant to the meanings of the sentences [Cooper,DE] |
9392 | How do behaviourists greet each other? [Sommers,W] |
4564 | I can meaningfully speculate that humans may have experiences currently impossible for us [Cooper,DE] |
4565 | The verification principle itself seems neither analytic nor verifiable [Cooper,DE] |
4563 | 'How now brown cow?' is used for elocution, but this says nothing about its meaning [Cooper,DE] |
4562 | Most people know how to use the word "Amen", but they do not know what it means [Cooper,DE] |
4566 | Any thesis about reference is also a thesis about what exists to be referred to [Cooper,DE] |
4571 | Reference need not be a hit-or-miss affair [Cooper,DE] |
4572 | If predicates name things, that reduces every sentence to a mere list of names [Cooper,DE] |
4576 | An analytic truth is one which becomes a logical truth when some synonyms have been replaced [Cooper,DE] |
12405 | 'If you're aristocratic,' said Nietzsche... [Sommers,W] |
9391 | Why do anarchists drink herbal tea? [Sommers,W] |
12125 | Teleological accounts are fine in metaphysics, but they stop us from searching for the causes [Bacon] |
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] |
12118 | Essences are part of first philosophy, but as part of nature, not part of logic [Bacon] |
17592 | The barman called 'Time!', and Augustine said..... [Sommers,W] |
15208 | The past, present and future walked into a bar.... [Sommers,W] |