21 ideas
22115 | Wise people should contemplate and discuss the truth, and fight against falsehood [Aquinas] |
9169 | A statement can be metaphysically necessary and epistemologically contingent [Putnam] |
5819 | Conceivability is no proof of possibility [Putnam] |
20700 | Without God's influence every operation would stop, so God causes everything [Aquinas] |
9168 | I can't distinguish elm trees, but I mean by 'elm' the same set of trees as everybody else [Putnam] |
5820 | 'Water' has an unnoticed indexical component, referring to stuff around here [Putnam] |
9170 | We need to recognise the contribution of society and of the world in determining reference [Putnam] |
5817 | Language is more like a cooperative steamship than an individual hammer [Putnam] |
23814 | Every human yearns for an unattainable transcendent good [Weil] |
23824 | Where human needs are satisfied we find happiness, friendship and beauty [Weil] |
23815 | We cannot equally respect what is unequal, so equal respect needs a shared ground [Weil] |
23823 | Life needs risks to avoid sickly boredom [Weil] |
23822 | We all need to partipate in public tasks, and take some initiative [Weil] |
23817 | We need both equality (to attend to human needs) and hierarchy (as a scale of responsibilities) [Weil] |
23819 | Deliberate public lying should be punished [Weil] |
23818 | We have liberty in the space between nature and accepted authority [Weil] |
23820 | People need personal and collective property, and a social class lacking property is shameful [Weil] |
23821 | Crime should be punished, to bring the perpetrator freely back to morality [Weil] |
5818 | If water is H2O in the actual world, there is no possible world where it isn't H2O [Putnam] |
15202 | Eternity coexists with passing time, as the centre of a circle coexists with its circumference [Aquinas] |
23816 | Attention to a transcendent reality motivates a duty to foster the good of humanity [Weil] |