8 ideas
22115 | Wise people should contemplate and discuss the truth, and fight against falsehood [Aquinas] |
14361 | Lewis says indicative conditionals are truth-functional [Lewis, by Jackson] |
8434 | In good counterfactuals the consequent holds in world like ours except that the antecedent is true [Lewis, by Horwich] |
20700 | Without God's influence every operation would stop, so God causes everything [Aquinas] |
13304 | Learned men gain more in one day than others do in a lifetime [Posidonius] |
9419 | A law of nature is a general axiom of the deductive system that is best for simplicity and strength [Lewis] |
20820 | Time is an interval of motion, or the measure of speed [Posidonius, by Stobaeus] |
15202 | Eternity coexists with passing time, as the centre of a circle coexists with its circumference [Aquinas] |