23 ideas
192 | Only one thing can be contrary to something [Plato] |
21642 | If quantification is all substitutional, there is no ontology [Quine] |
1633 | Absolute ontological questions are meaningless, because the answers are circular definitions [Quine] |
18964 | Ontology is relative to both a background theory and a translation manual [Quine] |
190 | If asked whether justice itself is just or unjust, you would have to say that it is just [Plato] |
18965 | We know what things are by distinguishing them, so identity is part of ontology [Quine] |
20185 | The most important things in life are wisdom and knowledge [Plato] |
20184 | The only real evil is loss of knowledge [Plato] |
1634 | Two things are relative - the background theory, and translating the object theory into the background theory [Quine] |
191 | Everything resembles everything else up to a point [Plato] |
10645 | We reach concepts by clarification, or by definition, or by habitual experience [Price,HH] |
10644 | A 'felt familiarity' with universals is more primitive than abstraction [Price,HH] |
10646 | Our understanding of 'dog' or 'house' arises from a repeated experience of concomitances [Price,HH] |
8470 | Reference is inscrutable, because we cannot choose between theories of numbers [Quine, by Orenstein] |
18963 | Indeterminacy translating 'rabbit' depends on translating individuation terms [Quine] |
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] |