24 ideas
21812 | Being is the product of pure intellect [Plotinus] |
21817 | The One does not exist, but is the source of all existence [Plotinus] |
21824 | The One is a principle which transcends Being [Plotinus] |
21813 | Number determines individual being [Plotinus] |
9169 | A statement can be metaphysically necessary and epistemologically contingent [Putnam] |
5819 | Conceivability is no proof of possibility [Putnam] |
5506 | If soul was like body, its parts would be separate, without communication [Plotinus] |
21827 | The movement of Soul is continuous, but we are only aware of the parts of it that are sensed [Plotinus] |
21828 | A person is the whole of their soul [Plotinus] |
21809 | Our soul has the same ideal nature as the oldest god, and is honourable above the body [Plotinus] |
21825 | The soul is outside of all of space, and has no connection to the bodily order [Plotinus] |
9168 | I can't distinguish elm trees, but I mean by 'elm' the same set of trees as everybody else [Putnam] |
5820 | 'Water' has an unnoticed indexical component, referring to stuff around here [Putnam] |
9170 | We need to recognise the contribution of society and of the world in determining reference [Putnam] |
5817 | Language is more like a cooperative steamship than an individual hammer [Putnam] |
21826 | The Soul reasons about the Right, so there must be some permanent Right about which it reasons [Plotinus] |
6922 | Ecstasy is for the neo-Platonist the highest psychological state of man [Plotinus, by Feuerbach] |
20948 | Human cultures are organisms which grow, and then fade and die [Spengler, by Bowie] |
21814 | How can multiple existence arise from the unified One? [Plotinus] |
21816 | Soul is the logos of Nous, just as Nous is the logos of the One [Plotinus] |
21815 | Because the One is immobile, it must create by radiation, light the sun producing light [Plotinus] |
5818 | If water is H2O in the actual world, there is no possible world where it isn't H2O [Putnam] |
21808 | Soul is author of all of life, and of the stars, and it gives them law and movement [Plotinus] |
21811 | Even the soul is secondary to the Intellectual-Principle [Nous], of which soul is an utterance [Plotinus] |