13 ideas
15527 | Defining terms either enables elimination, or shows that they don't require elimination [Lewis] |
304 | Beautiful things must be different from beauty itself, but beauty itself must be present in each of them [Plato] |
15530 | A logically determinate name names the same thing in every possible world [Lewis] |
16120 | Knowing how to achieve immortality is pointless without the knowledge how to use immortality [Plato] |
303 | Say how many teeth the other has, then count them. If you are right, we will trust your other claims [Plato] |
1556 | By nature people are close to one another, but culture drives them apart [Hippias] |
15526 | There is a method for defining new scientific terms just using the terms we already understand [Lewis] |
15528 | A Ramsey sentence just asserts that a theory can be realised, without saying by what [Lewis] |
15531 | The Ramsey sentence of a theory says that it has at least one realisation [Lewis] |
15529 | It is better to have one realisation of a theory than many - but it may not always be possible [Lewis] |
302 | What knowledge is required to live well? [Plato] |
301 | Only knowledge of some sort is good [Plato] |
305 | Something which lies midway between two evils is better than either of them [Plato] |