29 ideas
6319 | Wise people choose inaction and silence [Laozi (Lao Tzu)] |
6325 | One who knows does not speak; one who speaks does not know [Laozi (Lao Tzu)] |
6321 | Vulgar people are alert; I alone am muddled [Laozi (Lao Tzu)] |
20350 | Metaphysics generalises the data, to get at the ontology [Richardson] |
20349 | Metaphysics aims at the essence of things, and a system to show how this explains other truths [Richardson] |
20351 | Metaphysics needs systems, because analysis just obsesses over details [Richardson] |
18739 | Three stages of philosophical logic: syntactic (1905-55), possible worlds (1963-85), widening (1990-) [Horsten/Pettigrew] |
18741 | Logical formalization makes concepts precise, and also shows their interrelation [Horsten/Pettigrew] |
18744 | Models are sets with functions and relations, and truth built up from the components [Horsten/Pettigrew] |
18740 | If 'exist' doesn't express a property, we can hardly ask for its essence [Horsten/Pettigrew] |
18745 | A Tarskian model can be seen as a possible state of affairs [Horsten/Pettigrew] |
18747 | The 'spheres model' was added to possible worlds, to cope with counterfactuals [Horsten/Pettigrew] |
18748 | Epistemic logic introduced impossible worlds [Horsten/Pettigrew] |
18746 | Possible worlds models contain sets of possible worlds; this is a large metaphysical commitment [Horsten/Pettigrew] |
18750 | Using possible worlds for knowledge and morality may be a step too far [Horsten/Pettigrew] |
6328 | To know yet to think that one does not know is best [Laozi (Lao Tzu)] |
6323 | Pursuit of learning increases activity; the Way decreases it [Laozi (Lao Tzu)] |
6331 | Truth is not beautiful; beautiful speech is not truthful [Laozi (Lao Tzu)] |
6330 | One with no use for life is wiser than one who values it [Laozi (Lao Tzu)] |
6327 | Do good to him who has done you an injury [Laozi (Lao Tzu)] |
23402 | The highest virtue is achieved without effort [Laozi (Lao Tzu)] |
6324 | To gain in goodness, treat as good those who are good, and those who are not [Laozi (Lao Tzu)] |
6322 | There is no crime greater than having too many desires [Laozi (Lao Tzu)] |
20356 | Humans dominate because, unlike other animals, they have a synthesis of conflicting drives [Richardson] |
6320 | The best rulers are invisible, the next admired, the next feared, and the worst are exploited [Laozi (Lao Tzu)] |
6329 | People are hard to govern because authorities love to do things [Laozi (Lao Tzu)] |
6326 | The better known the law, the more criminals there are [Laozi (Lao Tzu)] |
23401 | A military victory is not a thing of beauty [Laozi (Lao Tzu)] |
20366 | A mind that could see cause and effect as a continuum would deny cause and effect [Richardson] |