32 ideas
| 8093 | Seek wisdom rather than truth; it is easier [Joubert] |
| 21943 | Since Kant, self-criticism has been part of philosophy [Gutting] |
| 8095 | We must think with our entire body and soul [Joubert] |
| 8107 | The love of certainty holds us back in metaphysics [Joubert] |
| 21944 | Structuralism describes human phenomena in terms of unconscious structures [Gutting] |
| 8099 | The truths of reason instruct, but they do not illuminate [Joubert] |
| 8098 | Truth consists of having the same idea about something that God has [Joubert] |
| 17518 | Counting 'coin in this box' may have coin as the unit, with 'in this box' merely as the scope [Ayers] |
| 17516 | If counting needs a sortal, what of things which fall under two sortals? [Ayers] |
| 17520 | Events do not have natural boundaries, and we have to set them [Ayers] |
| 17519 | To express borderline cases of objects, you need the concept of an 'object' [Ayers] |
| 17510 | Speakers need the very general category of a thing, if they are to think about it [Ayers] |
| 17522 | We use sortals to classify physical objects by the nature and origin of their unity [Ayers] |
| 17515 | Seeing caterpillar and moth as the same needs continuity, not identity of sortal concepts [Ayers] |
| 17511 | Recognising continuity is separate from sortals, and must precede their use [Ayers] |
| 17517 | Could the same matter have more than one form or principle of unity? [Ayers] |
| 17513 | If there are two objects, then 'that marble, man-shaped object' is ambiguous [Ayers] |
| 17523 | Sortals basically apply to individuals [Ayers] |
| 17521 | You can't have the concept of a 'stage' if you lack the concept of an object [Ayers] |
| 17514 | Temporal 'parts' cannot be separated or rearranged [Ayers] |
| 17509 | Some say a 'covering concept' completes identity; others place the concept in the reference [Ayers] |
| 17512 | If diachronic identities need covering concepts, why not synchronic identities too? [Ayers] |
| 8101 | To know is to see inside oneself [Joubert] |
| 8094 | The imagination has made more discoveries than the eye [Joubert] |
| 8103 | A thought is as real as a cannon ball [Joubert] |
| 8100 | Where does the bird's idea of a nest come from? [Joubert] |
| 8096 | He gives his body up to pleasure, but not his soul [Joubert] |
| 8104 | What will you think of pleasures when you no longer enjoy them? [Joubert] |
| 8097 | Virtue is hard if we are scorned; we need support [Joubert] |
| 8106 | In raising a child we must think of his old age [Joubert] |
| 8105 | We can't exactly conceive virtue without the idea of God [Joubert] |
| 8102 | We cannot speak against Christianity without anger, or speak for it without love [Joubert] |