15 ideas
9271 | Human knowledge may not produce well-being; the examined life may not be worth living [Gray] |
8859 | The main modal logics disagree over three key formulae [Yablo] |
8865 | If 'the number of Democrats is on the rise', does that mean that 50 million is on the rise? [Yablo] |
8863 | We must treat numbers as existing in order to express ourselves about the arrangement of planets [Yablo] |
8862 | Platonic objects are really created as existential metaphors [Yablo] |
8864 | We quantify over events, worlds, etc. in order to make logical possibilities clearer [Yablo] |
8858 | Philosophers keep finding unexpected objects, like models, worlds, functions, numbers, events, sets, properties [Yablo] |
9275 | Knowledge does not need minds or nervous systems; it is found in all living things [Gray] |
3214 | The models we use in reasoning may be more like perceptions than like language [Johnson-Laird] |
9276 | The will hardly ever does anything; most of our life just happens to us [Gray] |
8861 | Hardly a word in the language is devoid of metaphorical potential [Yablo] |
9278 | Nowadays we identify the free life with the good life [Gray] |
9280 | Over forty percent of the Earth's living tissue is human [Gray] |
9272 | Without Christianity we lose the idea that human history has a meaning [Gray] |
9279 | What was our original sin, and how could Christ's suffering redeem it? [Gray] |