19 ideas
2922 | All intelligent Romans were Epicureans [Nietzsche] |
6950 | You can be rational with undetected or minor inconsistencies [Harman] |
6954 | A coherent conceptual scheme contains best explanations of most of your beliefs [Harman] |
23520 | Truth has had to be fought for, and normal life must be sacrificed to achieve it [Nietzsche] |
2914 | One must never ask whether truth is useful [Nietzsche] |
6955 | Enumerative induction is inference to the best explanation [Harman] |
6952 | Induction is 'defeasible', since additional information can invalidate it [Harman] |
6953 | All reasoning is inductive, and deduction only concerns implication [Harman] |
6951 | Ordinary rationality is conservative, starting from where your beliefs currently are [Harman] |
468 | Musical performance can reveal a range of virtues [Damon of Ath.] |
2921 | Philosophy grasps the limits of human reason, and values are beyond it [Nietzsche] |
20138 | Christianity is at war with the higher type of man, and excommunicates his basic instincts [Nietzsche] |
20375 | Virtues must be highly personal; if not, it is merely respect for a concept [Nietzsche] |
2915 | Each person should devise his own virtues and categorical imperative [Nietzsche] |
2920 | A God who cures us of a head cold at the right moment is a total absurdity [Nietzsche] |
2917 | Christianity is a revolt of things crawling on the ground against elevated things [Nietzsche] |
2918 | The story in Genesis is the story of God's fear of science [Nietzsche] |
2919 | 'Faith' means not wanting to know what is true [Nietzsche] |
2916 | The great lie of immortality destroys rationality and natural instinct [Nietzsche] |