11 ideas
14804 | Is chance just unknown laws? But the laws operate the same, whatever chance occurs [Peirce] |
22410 | Maybe the unthinkable is a moral category, and considering some options is dishonourable or absurd [Williams,B] |
14805 | Is there any such thing as death among the lower organisms? [Peirce] |
22408 | Consequentialism assumes that situations can be compared [Williams,B] |
22411 | For a consequentialist massacring 7 million must be better than massacring 7 million and one [Williams,B] |
22409 | We don't have a duty to ensure that others do their duty [Williams,B] |
22407 | Utilitarianism cannot make any serious sense of integrity [Williams,B] |
13304 | Learned men gain more in one day than others do in a lifetime [Posidonius] |
14806 | If the world is just mechanical, its whole specification has no more explanation than mere chance [Peirce] |
14803 | The more precise the observations, the less reliable appear to be the laws of nature [Peirce] |
20820 | Time is an interval of motion, or the measure of speed [Posidonius, by Stobaeus] |