18 ideas
16123 | Whenever you perceive a community of things, you should also hunt out differences in the group [Plato] |
16124 | No one wants to define 'weaving' just for the sake of weaving [Plato] |
16125 | To reveal a nature, divide down, and strip away what it has in common with other things [Plato] |
8439 | Maybe each event has only one possible causal history [Bennett] |
8440 | Maybe an event's time of occurrence is essential to it [Bennett] |
14962 | Bodies don't becomes scattered by losing small or minor parts [Cartwright,R] |
14961 | Clearly a pipe can survive being taken apart [Cartwright,R] |
5961 | The soul gets its goodness from god, and its evil from previous existence. [Plato] |
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] |
8436 | Either cause and effect are subsumed under a conditional because of properties, or it is counterfactual [Bennett] |
8441 | Delaying a fire doesn't cause it, but hastening it might [Bennett] |
8435 | Causes are between events ('the explosion') or between facts/states of affairs ('a bomb dropped') [Bennett] |
8437 | The full counterfactual story asserts a series of events, because counterfactuals are not transitive [Bennett] |
8438 | A counterfactual about an event implies something about the event's essence [Bennett] |
279 | Only divine things can always stay the same, and bodies are not like that [Plato] |