13 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] |
6258 | Virtue is the distinctive mark of truth, and its greatest product [Montaigne] |
17423 | The essence of natural numbers must reflect all the functions they perform [Sicha] |
17425 | To know how many, you need a numerical quantifier, as well as equinumerosity [Sicha] |
17424 | Counting puts an initial segment of a serial ordering 1-1 with some other entities [Sicha] |
6262 | We lack some sense or other, and hence objects may have hidden features [Montaigne] |
16730 | If matter is entirely atoms, anything else we notice in it can only be modes [Gassendi] |
6260 | Sceptics say there is truth, but no means of making or testing lasting judgements [Montaigne] |
16619 | We observe qualities, and use 'induction' to refer to the substances lying under them [Gassendi] |
6261 | The soul is in the brain, as shown by head injuries [Montaigne] |
16593 | Atoms are not points, but hard indivisible things, which no force in nature can divide [Gassendi] |
16729 | How do mere atoms produce qualities like colour, flavour and odour? [Gassendi] |