11 ideas
21552 | Common speech is vague; its vocabulary and syntax must be modified, for precision [Russell] |
2676 | Didactic argument starts from the principles of the subject, not from the opinions of the learner [Aristotle] |
2675 | Reasoning is a way of making statements which makes them lead on to other statements [Aristotle] |
2677 | Dialectic aims to start from generally accepted opinions, and lead to a contradiction [Aristotle] |
2674 | Competitive argument aims at refutation, fallacy, paradox, solecism or repetition [Aristotle] |
21551 | Empirical words need ostensive definition, which makes them egocentric [Russell] |
16967 | 'Are Coriscus and Callias at home?' sounds like a single question, but it isn't [Aristotle] |
16149 | Generic terms like 'man' are not substances, but qualities, relations, modes or some such thing [Aristotle] |
11840 | Only if two things are identical do they have the same attributes [Aristotle] |
21550 | Science reduces indexicals to a minimum, but they can never be eliminated from empirical matters [Russell] |
19399 | Prime matter is nothing when it is at rest [Leibniz] |