14 ideas
2666 | Carneades' pinnacles of philosophy are the basis of knowledge (the criterion of truth) and the end of appetite (good) [Carneades, by Cicero] |
21390 | Future events are true if one day we will say 'this event is happening now' [Carneades] |
21672 | We say future things are true that will possess actuality at some following time [Carneades, by Cicero] |
3291 | Emergent properties appear at high levels of complexity, but aren't explainable by the lower levels [Nagel] |
14082 | No sortal could ever exactly pin down which set of particles count as this 'cup' [Schaffer,J] |
15825 | Carneades denied the transitivity of identity [Carneades, by Chisholm] |
14081 | Identities can be true despite indeterminate reference, if true under all interpretations [Schaffer,J] |
21389 | Carneades distinguished logical from causal necessity, when talking of future events [Long on Carneades] |
21671 | Voluntary motion is intrinsically within our power, and this power is its cause [Carneades, by Cicero] |
21391 | Some actions are within our power; determinism needs prior causes for everything - so it is false [Carneades, by Cicero] |
21674 | Even Apollo can only foretell the future when it is naturally necessary [Carneades, by Cicero] |
7398 | Carneades said that after a shipwreck a wise man would seize the only plank by force [Carneades, by Tuck] |
21392 | People change laws for advantage; either there is no justice, or it is a form of self-injury [Carneades, by Lactantius] |
3290 | Given the nature of heat and of water, it is literally impossible for water not to boil at the right heat [Nagel] |