21 ideas
6259 | Why can't a wise man doubt everything? [Montaigne] |
6263 | No wisdom could make us comfortably walk a wide beam if it was high in the air [Montaigne] |
22026 | Philosophy is homesickness - the urge to be at home everywhere [Novalis] |
14001 | People who use science to make philosophical points don't realise how philosophical science is [Markosian] |
6258 | Virtue is the distinctive mark of truth, and its greatest product [Montaigne] |
13991 | Presentism has the problem that if Socrates ceases to exist, so do propositions about him [Markosian] |
6262 | We lack some sense or other, and hence objects may have hidden features [Montaigne] |
14002 | Possible worlds must be abstract, because two qualitatively identical worlds are just one world [Markosian] |
6260 | Sceptics say there is truth, but no means of making or testing lasting judgements [Montaigne] |
6261 | The soul is in the brain, as shown by head injuries [Montaigne] |
19591 | Desire for perfection is an illness, if it turns against what is imperfect [Novalis] |
14000 | 'Grabby' truth conditions first select their object, unlike 'searchy' truth conditions [Markosian] |
13990 | Presentism is the view that only present objects exist [Markosian] |
13992 | Presentism says if objects don't exist now, we can't have attitudes to them or relations with them [Markosian] |
13994 | Presentism seems to entail that we cannot talk about other times [Markosian] |
13995 | Serious Presentism says things must exist to have relations and properties; Unrestricted version denies this [Markosian] |
13996 | Maybe Presentists can refer to the haecceity of a thing, after the thing itself disappears [Markosian] |
13997 | Maybe Presentists can paraphrase singular propositions about the past [Markosian] |
13993 | Special Relativity denies the absolute present which Presentism needs [Markosian] |
13998 | Objects in the past, like Socrates, are more like imaginary objects than like remote spatial objects [Markosian] |
13999 | People are mistaken when they think 'Socrates was a philosopher' says something [Markosian] |