8 ideas
21405 | Cicero sees wisdom in terms of knowledge, but earlier Stoics saw it as moral [Cicero, by Long] |
20871 | Unfortunately we choose a way of life before we are old enough to think clearly [Cicero] |
6601 | Science rules the globe because of colonising power, not inherent rationality [Feyerabend] |
8203 | All the arithmetical entities can be reduced to classes of integers, and hence to sets [Quine] |
2561 | For Feyerabend the meaning of a term depends on a whole theory [Feyerabend, by Rorty] |
8202 | Meaning is essence divorced from things and wedded to words [Quine] |
8201 | The distinction between meaning and further information is as vague as the essence/accident distinction [Quine] |
6031 | The essence of propriety is consistency [Cicero] |