17 ideas
| 3798 | An overexamined life is as bad as an unexamined one [Dennett] |
| 3801 | Rationality requires the assumption that things are either for better or worse [Dennett] |
| 18261 | A simplification which is complete constitutes a definition [Kant] |
| 21750 | Science is sympathetic to truth as correspondence, since it depends on observation [Quine] |
| 22275 | Logic gives us the necessary rules which show us how we ought to think [Kant] |
| 3802 | Why pronounce impossible what you cannot imagine? [Dennett] |
| 18260 | If we knew what we know, we would be astonished [Kant] |
| 3795 | Causal theories require the "right" sort of link (usually unspecified) [Dennett] |
| 21748 | More careful inductions gradually lead to the hypothetico-deductive method [Quine] |
| 3797 | I am the sum total of what I directly control [Dennett] |
| 3803 | Can we conceive of a being with a will freer than our own? [Dennett] |
| 3800 | You can be free even though force would have prevented you doing otherwise [Dennett, by PG] |
| 3791 | Awareness of thought is a step beyond awareness of the world [Dennett] |
| 3794 | Foreknowledge permits control [Dennett] |
| 3796 | The active self is a fiction created because we are ignorant of our motivations [Dennett] |
| 21749 | Altruistic values concern other persons, and ceremonial values concern practices [Quine] |
| 21751 | Love seems to diminish with distance from oneself [Quine] |