12 ideas
2661 | Dialectic is speech cast in the form of logical argument [Cicero] |
2673 | There cannot be more than one truth [Cicero] |
2669 | Dialectic assumes that all statements are either true or false, but self-referential paradoxes are a big problem [Cicero] |
14804 | Is chance just unknown laws? But the laws operate the same, whatever chance occurs [Peirce] |
2664 | If we have complete healthy senses, what more could the gods give us? [Cicero] |
2665 | How can there be a memory of what is false? [Cicero] |
20800 | Every true presentation can have a false one of the same quality [Cicero] |
14805 | Is there any such thing as death among the lower organisms? [Peirce] |
2672 | Virtues must be very detached, to avoid being motivated by pleasure [Cicero] |
2594 | A true cause must involve a necessary connection between cause and effect [Malebranche] |
14806 | If the world is just mechanical, its whole specification has no more explanation than mere chance [Peirce] |
14803 | The more precise the observations, the less reliable appear to be the laws of nature [Peirce] |