34 ideas
| 13786 | Wisdom is called 'beautiful', because it performs fine works [Plato] |
| 13780 | Good people are no different from wise ones [Plato] |
| 17651 | Without words or other symbols, we have no world [Goodman] |
| 13778 | A dialectician is someone who knows how to ask and to answer questions [Plato] |
| 17652 | Truth is irrelevant if no statements are involved [Goodman] |
| 13776 | Truths say of what is that it is, falsehoods say of what is that it is not [Plato] |
| 13790 | A name-giver might misname something, then force other names to conform to it [Plato] |
| 13777 | A name is a sort of tool [Plato] |
| 13791 | Things must be known before they are named, so it can't be the names that give us knowledge [Plato] |
| 13789 | Anyone who knows a thing's name also knows the thing [Plato] |
| 2063 | How can beauty have identity if it changes? [Plato] |
| 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] |
| 13775 | We only succeed in cutting if we use appropriate tools, not if we approach it randomly [Plato] |
| 17654 | A world can be full of variety or not, depending on how we sort it [Goodman] |
| 13787 | Doesn't each thing have an essence, just as it has other qualities? [Plato] |
| 16620 | A chair is wood, and its shape is the form; it isn't 'compounded' of the matter and form [Hobbes] |
| 13774 | Things don't have every attribute, and essence isn't private, so each thing has an essence [Plato] |
| 13772 | Is the being or essence of each thing private to each person? [Plato] |
| 16622 | Essence is just an artificial word from logic, giving a way of thinking about substances [Hobbes] |
| 17653 | Things can only be judged the 'same' by citing some respect of sameness [Goodman] |
| 13788 | If we made a perfect duplicate of Cratylus, there would be two Cratyluses [Plato] |
| 17660 | Discovery is often just finding a fit, like a jigsaw puzzle [Goodman] |
| 13792 | There can't be any knowledge if things are constantly changing [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] |
| 13781 | Soul causes the body to live, and gives it power to breathe and to be revitalized [Plato] |
| 13785 | 'Arete' signifies lack of complexity and a free-flowing soul [Plato] |
| 17649 | If the world is one it has many aspects, and if there are many worlds they will collect into one [Goodman] |
| 13779 | The natural offspring of a lion is called a 'lion' (but what about the offspring of a king?) [Plato] |
| 13783 | Even the gods love play [Plato] |