22 ideas
22138 | Science rests on scholastic metaphysics, not on Hume, Kant or Carnap [Boulter] |
192 | Only one thing can be contrary to something [Plato] |
22134 | Thoughts are general, but the world isn't, so how can we think accurately? [Boulter] |
190 | If asked whether justice itself is just or unjust, you would have to say that it is just [Plato] |
22150 | Logical possibility needs the concepts of the proposition to be adequate [Boulter] |
20185 | The most important things in life are wisdom and knowledge [Plato] |
20184 | The only real evil is loss of knowledge [Plato] |
22139 | Experiments don't just observe; they look to see what interventions change the natural order [Boulter] |
22136 | Science begins with sufficient reason, de-animation, and the importance of nature [Boulter] |
22135 | Our concepts can never fully capture reality, but simplification does not falsify [Boulter] |
191 | Everything resembles everything else up to a point [Plato] |
22152 | Aristotelians accept the analytic-synthetic distinction [Boulter] |
203 | Courage is knowing what should or shouldn't be feared [Plato] |
22156 | The facts about human health are the measure of the values in our lives [Boulter] |
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] |
19945 | Jew and Greeks, bond and free, male and female, are all one in Christ [Paul] |