20 ideas
| 15833 | Tell cleverness from answers, but wisdom from questions [Mahfouz] |
| 17651 | Without words or other symbols, we have no world [Goodman] |
| 17652 | Truth is irrelevant if no statements are involved [Goodman] |
| 17656 | Being primitive or prior always depends on a constructional system [Goodman] |
| 17661 | We don't recognise patterns - we invent them [Goodman] |
| 17659 | Reality is largely a matter of habit [Goodman] |
| 17657 | We build our world, and ignore anything that won't fit [Goodman] |
| 17654 | A world can be full of variety or not, depending on how we sort it [Goodman] |
| 304 | Beautiful things must be different from beauty itself, but beauty itself must be present in each of them [Plato] |
| 17653 | Things can only be judged the 'same' by citing some respect of sameness [Goodman] |
| 16120 | Knowing how to achieve immortality is pointless without the knowledge how to use immortality [Plato] |
| 17660 | Discovery is often just finding a fit, like a jigsaw puzzle [Goodman] |
| 303 | Say how many teeth the other has, then count them. If you are right, we will trust your other claims [Plato] |
| 17658 | Users of digital thermometers recognise no temperatures in the gaps [Goodman] |
| 17650 | We lack frames of reference to transform physics, biology and psychology into one another [Goodman] |
| 17655 | Grue and green won't be in the same world, as that would block induction entirely [Goodman] |
| 302 | What knowledge is required to live well? [Plato] |
| 301 | Only knowledge of some sort is good [Plato] |
| 305 | Something which lies midway between two evils is better than either of them [Plato] |
| 17649 | If the world is one it has many aspects, and if there are many worlds they will collect into one [Goodman] |