14 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] |
16978 | If conceivability is a priori coherence, that implies possibility [Tahko] |
5961 | The soul gets its goodness from god, and its evil from previous existence. [Plato] |
16975 | Essences are used to explain natural kinds, modality, and causal powers [Tahko] |
21799 | We just use the word 'faculty' when we don't know the psychological cause [Galen] |
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] |
16976 | Scientific essentialists tend to characterise essence in terms of modality (not vice versa) [Tahko] |
16977 | If essence is modal and laws are necessary, essentialist knowledge is found by scientists [Tahko] |
279 | Only divine things can always stay the same, and bodies are not like that [Plato] |