14 ideas
3798 | An overexamined life is as bad as an unexamined one [Dennett] |
16415 | Esoteric metaphysics aims to be top science, investigating ultimate reality [Hofweber] |
16413 | Science has discovered properties of things, so there are properties - so who needs metaphysics? [Hofweber] |
3801 | Rationality requires the assumption that things are either for better or worse [Dennett] |
16416 | The quantifier in logic is not like the ordinary English one (which has empty names, non-denoting terms etc) [Hofweber] |
3802 | Why pronounce impossible what you cannot imagine? [Dennett] |
3795 | Causal theories require the "right" sort of link (usually unspecified) [Dennett] |
3797 | I am the sum total of what I directly control [Dennett] |
3800 | You can be free even though force would have prevented you doing otherwise [Dennett, by PG] |
3803 | Can we conceive of a being with a will freer than our own? [Dennett] |
3794 | Foreknowledge permits control [Dennett] |
3791 | Awareness of thought is a step beyond awareness of the world [Dennett] |
3796 | The active self is a fiction created because we are ignorant of our motivations [Dennett] |
1590 | The just man does not harm his enemies, but benefits everyone [Plato] |