12 ideas
6259 | Why can't a wise man doubt everything? [Montaigne] |
291 | Don't assume that wisdom is the automatic consequence of old age [Plato] |
6263 | No wisdom could make us comfortably walk a wide beam if it was high in the air [Montaigne] |
6258 | Virtue is the distinctive mark of truth, and its greatest product [Montaigne] |
19086 | Does the pragmatic theory of meaning support objective truth, or make it impossible? [Macbeth] |
19093 | Greek mathematics is wholly sensory, where ours is wholly inferential [Macbeth] |
6262 | We lack some sense or other, and hence objects may have hidden features [Montaigne] |
6260 | Sceptics say there is truth, but no means of making or testing lasting judgements [Montaigne] |
19091 | Seeing reality mathematically makes it an object of thought, not of experience [Macbeth] |
6261 | The soul is in the brain, as shown by head injuries [Montaigne] |
19088 | For pragmatists a concept means its consequences [Macbeth] |
293 | Being unafraid (perhaps through ignorance) and being brave are two different things [Plato] |