13 ideas
16123 | Whenever you perceive a community of things, you should also hunt out differences in the group [Plato] |
5035 | The two basics of reasoning are contradiction and sufficient reason [Leibniz] |
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] |
5961 | The soul gets its goodness from god, and its evil from previous existence. [Plato] |
5038 | Assume that mind and body follow their own laws, but God has harmonised them [Leibniz] |
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] |
14409 | I am a presentist, and all language and common sense supports my view [Bigelow] |
279 | Only divine things can always stay the same, and bodies are not like that [Plato] |
5037 | God doesn't decide that Adam will sin, but that sinful Adam's existence is to be preferred [Leibniz] |