11 ideas
6259 | Why can't a wise man doubt everything? [Montaigne] |
6263 | No wisdom could make us comfortably walk a wide beam if it was high in the air [Montaigne] |
8207 | The quest for simplicity drove scientists to posit new entities, such as molecules in gases [Quine] |
8208 | In arithmetic, ratios, negatives, irrationals and imaginaries were created in order to generalise [Quine] |
6258 | Virtue is the distinctive mark of truth, and its greatest product [Montaigne] |
8205 | Explaining events just by bodies can't explain two events identical in space-time [Quine] |
6262 | We lack some sense or other, and hence objects may have hidden features [Montaigne] |
490 | Everything happens by reason and necessity [Leucippus] |
8206 | Necessity could be just generalisation over classes, or (maybe) quantifying over possibilia [Quine] |
6260 | Sceptics say there is truth, but no means of making or testing lasting judgements [Montaigne] |
6261 | The soul is in the brain, as shown by head injuries [Montaigne] |