9 ideas
22115 | Wise people should contemplate and discuss the truth, and fight against falsehood [Aquinas] |
12394 | If the result is bad, we change the rule; if we like the rule, we reject the result [Goodman] |
14292 | Dispositions seem more ethereal than behaviour; a non-occult account of them would be nice [Goodman] |
18749 | Goodman argued that the confirmation relation can never be formalised [Goodman, by Horsten/Pettigrew] |
17646 | Goodman showed that every sound inductive argument has an unsound one of the same form [Goodman, by Putnam] |
20700 | Without God's influence every operation would stop, so God causes everything [Aquinas] |
7903 | The six perfections are giving, morality, patience, vigour, meditation, and wisdom [Nagarjuna] |
4794 | We don't use laws to make predictions, we call things laws if we make predictions with them [Goodman] |
15202 | Eternity coexists with passing time, as the centre of a circle coexists with its circumference [Aquinas] |