17 ideas
9271 | Human knowledge may not produce well-being; the examined life may not be worth living [Gray] |
18901 | Truthmakers are facts 'of' a domain, not something 'in' the domain [Sommers] |
18904 | 'Predicable' terms come in charged pairs, with one the negation of the other [Sommers, by Engelbretsen] |
18895 | Logic which maps ordinary reasoning must be transparent, and free of variables [Sommers] |
18897 | Predicate logic has to spell out that its identity relation '=' is an equivalent relation [Sommers] |
18893 | Translating into quantificational idiom offers no clues as to how ordinary thinkers reason [Sommers] |
18903 | Sommers promotes the old idea that negation basically refers to terms [Sommers, by Engelbretsen] |
18894 | Predicates form a hierarchy, from the most general, down to names at the bottom [Sommers] |
18900 | Unfortunately for realists, modern logic cannot say that some fact exists [Sommers] |
9275 | Knowledge does not need minds or nervous systems; it is found in all living things [Gray] |
9276 | The will hardly ever does anything; most of our life just happens to us [Gray] |
18898 | In standard logic, names are the only way to refer [Sommers] |
7903 | The six perfections are giving, morality, patience, vigour, meditation, and wisdom [Nagarjuna] |
9278 | Nowadays we identify the free life with the good life [Gray] |
9280 | Over forty percent of the Earth's living tissue is human [Gray] |
9279 | What was our original sin, and how could Christ's suffering redeem it? [Gray] |
9272 | Without Christianity we lose the idea that human history has a meaning [Gray] |