17 ideas
16123 | Whenever you perceive a community of things, you should also hunt out differences in the group [Plato] |
6806 | Do not multiply entities beyond necessity [William of Ockham] |
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] |
22132 | Species and genera are individual concepts which naturally signify many individuals [William of Ockham] |
5961 | The soul gets its goodness from god, and its evil from previous existence. [Plato] |
9354 | Why should necessities only be knowable a priori? That Hesperus is Phosporus is known empirically [Devitt] |
9353 | We explain away a priori knowledge, not as directly empirical, but as indirectly holistically empirical [Devitt] |
9356 | The idea of the a priori is so obscure that it won't explain anything [Devitt] |
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] |
19381 | The past has ceased to exist, and the future does not yet exist, so time does not exist [William of Ockham] |
279 | Only divine things can always stay the same, and bodies are not like that [Plato] |
8010 | William of Ockham is the main spokesman for God's commands being the source of morality [William of Ockham] |
16679 | Even an angel must have some location [William of Ockham, by Pasnau] |