10 ideas
15970 | People generalise because it is easier to understand, and that is mistaken for deep philosophy [Feynman] |
23279 | It is important that a person can change their character, and not just be successive 'selves' [Williams,B] |
23280 | Kantians have an poor account of individuals, and insist on impartiality, because they ignore character [Williams,B] |
23278 | For utilitarians states of affairs are what have value, not matter who produced them [Williams,B] |
9410 | Physical Laws are rhythms and patterns in nature, revealed by analysis [Feynman] |
21731 | Fields can be 'scalar', or 'vector', or 'tensor', or 'spinor' [Baggott] |
21730 | A 'field' is a property with a magnitude, distributed across all of space and time [Baggott] |
18530 | Nobody understands quantum mechanics [Feynman] |
21732 | The current standard model requires 61 particles [Baggott] |
17707 | We should regard space as made up of many tiny pieces [Feynman, by Mares] |