10 ideas
2626 | A philosopher is outside any community of ideas [Wittgenstein] |
6569 | 'This sentence is false' sends us in a looping search for its proposition [Wittgenstein, by Fogelin] |
5062 | First: there must be reasons; Second: why anything at all?; Third: why this? [Leibniz] |
19377 | A monad and its body are living, so life is everywhere, and comes in infinite degrees [Leibniz] |
19353 | 'Perception' is basic internal representation, and 'apperception' is reflective knowledge of perception [Leibniz] |
3790 | Causes of beliefs are irrelevant to their contents [Wittgenstein] |
7458 | The reliability of witnesses depends on whether they benefit from their observations [Laplace, by Hacking] |
5061 | Animals are semi-rational because they connect facts, but they don't see causes [Leibniz] |
3441 | If a supreme intellect knew all atoms and movements, it could know all of the past and the future [Laplace] |
5063 | Music charms, although its beauty is the harmony of numbers [Leibniz] |