8 ideas
22752 | Reasoning is impossible without a preconception [Sext.Empiricus] |
490 | Everything happens by reason and necessity [Leucippus] |
14361 | Lewis says indicative conditionals are truth-functional [Lewis, by Jackson] |
8434 | In good counterfactuals the consequent holds in world like ours except that the antecedent is true [Lewis, by Horwich] |
22754 | Saying the good is useful or choiceworth or happiness-creating is not the good, but a feature of it [Sext.Empiricus] |
22755 | Like a warming fire, what is good by nature should be good for everyone [Sext.Empiricus] |
22756 | If a desire is itself desirable, then we shouldn't desire it, as achieving it destroys it [Sext.Empiricus] |
9419 | A law of nature is a general axiom of the deductive system that is best for simplicity and strength [Lewis] |