19 ideas
13099 | Analysing right down to primitive concepts seems beyond our powers [Leibniz] |
192 | Only one thing can be contrary to something [Plato] |
5022 | We hold a proposition true if we are ready to follow it, and can't see any objections [Leibniz] |
190 | If asked whether justice itself is just or unjust, you would have to say that it is just [Plato] |
16978 | If conceivability is a priori coherence, that implies possibility [Tahko] |
20184 | The only real evil is loss of knowledge [Plato] |
20185 | The most important things in life are wisdom and knowledge [Plato] |
16975 | Essences are used to explain natural kinds, modality, and causal powers [Tahko] |
191 | Everything resembles everything else up to a point [Plato] |
203 | Courage is knowing what should or shouldn't be feared [Plato] |
202 | No one willingly and knowingly embraces evil [Plato] |
193 | Some things are good even though they are not beneficial to men [Plato] |
197 | Some pleasures are not good, and some pains are not evil [Plato] |
200 | People tend only to disapprove of pleasure if it leads to pain, or prevents future pleasure [Plato] |
188 | Socrates did not believe that virtue could be taught [Plato] |
204 | Socrates is contradicting himself in claiming virtue can't be taught, but that it is knowledge [Plato] |
189 | If we punish wrong-doers, it shows that we believe virtue can be taught [Plato] |
16976 | Scientific essentialists tend to characterise essence in terms of modality (not vice versa) [Tahko] |
16977 | If essence is modal and laws are necessary, essentialist knowledge is found by scientists [Tahko] |