12 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] |
18438 | Every worldly event, without exception, is a redistribution of microphysical states [Quine] |
9103 | A universal is not a real feature of objects, but only a thought-object in the mind [William of Ockham] |
5961 | The soul gets its goodness from god, and its evil from previous existence. [Plato] |
9104 | A universal is the result of abstraction, which is only a kind of mental picturing [William of Ockham] |
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] |
279 | Only divine things can always stay the same, and bodies are not like that [Plato] |