21 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] |
9390 | Logic guides thinking, but it isn't a substitute for it [Rumfitt] |
23548 | Indeterminacy is in conflict with classical logic [Fine,K] |
23539 | Classical semantics has referents for names, extensions for predicates, and T or F for sentences [Fine,K] |
23544 | Local indeterminacy concerns a single object, and global indeterminacy covers a range [Fine,K] |
23540 | Conjoining two indefinites by related sentences seems to produce a contradiction [Fine,K] |
23546 | Standardly vagueness involves borderline cases, and a higher standpoint from which they can be seen [Fine,K] |
23542 | Identifying vagueness with ignorance is the common mistake of confusing symptoms with cause [Fine,K] |
23541 | Supervaluation can give no answer to 'who is the last bald man' [Fine,K] |
9389 | Vague membership of sets is possible if the set is defined by its concept, not its members [Rumfitt] |
23545 | We do not have an intelligible concept of a borderline case [Fine,K] |
5961 | The soul gets its goodness from god, and its evil from previous existence. [Plato] |
23547 | It seems absurd that there is no identity of any kind between two objects which involve survival [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] |
22559 | Democracy is the worst of good constitutions, but the best of bad constitutions [Plato, by Aristotle] |
23543 | We identify laws with regularities because we mistakenly identify causes with their symptoms [Fine,K] |
279 | Only divine things can always stay the same, and bodies are not like that [Plato] |