9 ideas
22642 | Man has an intense natural interest in the consistency of his own thinking [James] |
22641 | Realities just are, and beliefs are true of them [James] |
22640 | We find satisfaction in consistency of all of our beliefs, perceptions and mental connections [James] |
2799 | Bayes' theorem explains why very surprising predictions have a higher value as evidence [Horwich] |
2798 | Probability of H, given evidence E, is prob(H) x prob(E given H) / prob(E) [Horwich] |
20416 | By 1790 aestheticians were mainly trying to explain individual artistic genius [Kemp] |
20417 | Expression can be either necessary for art, or sufficient for art (or even both) [Kemp] |
20419 | We don't already know what to express, and then seek means of expressing it [Kemp] |
20418 | The horror expressed in some works of art could equallly be expressed by other means [Kemp] |