26 ideas
1922 | Spiritual qualities only become advantageous with the growth of wisdom [Plato] |
17713 | After 1903, Husserl avoids metaphysical commitments [Mares] |
11259 | How can you seek knowledge of something if you don't know it? [Plato] |
17715 | The truth of the axioms doesn't matter for pure mathematics, but it does for applied [Mares] |
17716 | Mathematics is relations between properties we abstract from experience [Mares] |
17703 | Light in straight lines is contingent a priori; stipulated as straight, because they happen to be so [Mares] |
20219 | True opinions only become really valuable when they are tied down by reasons [Plato] |
5985 | Seeking and learning are just recollection [Plato] |
5986 | The slave boy learns geometry from questioning, not teaching, so it is recollection [Plato] |
17714 | Aristotelians dislike the idea of a priori judgements from pure reason [Mares] |
17705 | Empiricists say rationalists mistake imaginative powers for modal insights [Mares] |
1923 | As a guide to action, true opinion is as good as knowledge [Plato] |
17700 | The most popular view is that coherent beliefs explain one another [Mares] |
1919 | You don't need to learn what you know, and how do you seek for what you don't know? [Plato] |
17704 | Operationalism defines concepts by our ways of measuring them [Mares] |
8130 | Qualities of experience are just representational aspects of experience ('Representationalism') [Harman, by Burge] |
17710 | Aristotelian justification uses concepts abstracted from experience [Mares] |
17706 | The essence of a concept is either its definition or its conceptual relations? [Mares] |
17701 | Possible worlds semantics has a nice compositional account of modal statements [Mares] |
17702 | Unstructured propositions are sets of possible worlds; structured ones have components [Mares] |
1913 | Is virtue taught, or achieved by practice, or a natural aptitude, or what? [Plato] |
1921 | If virtue is a type of knowledge then it ought to be taught [Plato] |
1927 | It seems that virtue is neither natural nor taught, but is a divine gift [Plato] |
1918 | How can you know part of virtue without knowing the whole? [Plato] |
1916 | Even if virtues are many and various, they must have something in common to make them virtues [Plato] |
17708 | Maybe space has points, but processes always need regions with a size [Mares] |