13 ideas
16123 | Whenever you perceive a community of things, you should also hunt out differences in the group [Plato] |
16125 | To reveal a nature, divide down, and strip away what it has in common with other things [Plato] |
16124 | No one wants to define 'weaving' just for the sake of weaving [Plato] |
9216 | Each area of enquiry, and its source, has its own distinctive type of necessity [Fine,K] |
5961 | The soul gets its goodness from god, and its evil from previous existence. [Plato] |
9214 | Unsupported testimony may still be believable [Fine,K] |
283 | The question of whether or not to persuade comes before the science of persuasion [Plato] |
282 | Non-physical beauty can only be shown clearly by speech [Plato] |
281 | The arts produce good and beautiful things by preserving the mean [Plato] |
23215 | Even the poorest have a life to lead, and so should consent to who governs them [-] |
22559 | Democracy is the worst of good constitutions, but the best of bad constitutions [Plato, by Aristotle] |
9215 | Causation is easier to disrupt than logic, so metaphysics is part of nature, not vice versa [Fine,K] |
279 | Only divine things can always stay the same, and bodies are not like that [Plato] |