18 ideas
14519 | It is a great good to show reverence for a wise man [Epicurus] |
14518 | In the study of philosophy, pleasure and knowledge arrive simultaneously [Epicurus] |
12394 | If the result is bad, we change the rule; if we like the rule, we reject the result [Goodman] |
14292 | Dispositions seem more ethereal than behaviour; a non-occult account of them would be nice [Goodman] |
14524 | Bodies are combinations of shape, size, resistance and weight [Epicurus] |
18749 | Goodman argued that the confirmation relation can never be formalised [Goodman, by Horsten/Pettigrew] |
17646 | Goodman showed that every sound inductive argument has an unsound one of the same form [Goodman, by Putnam] |
14521 | If everything is by necessity, then even denials of necessity are by necessity [Epicurus] |
14522 | What happens to me if I obtain all my desires, and what if I fail? [Epicurus] |
3563 | Pleasure and virtue entail one another [Epicurus] |
3560 | Justice is merely a contract about not harming or being harmed [Epicurus] |
14517 | We value our own character, whatever it is, and we should respect the characters of others [Epicurus] |
14513 | Justice is a pledge of mutual protection [Epicurus] |
14515 | A law is not just if it is not useful in mutual associations [Epicurus] |
13304 | Learned men gain more in one day than others do in a lifetime [Posidonius] |
14520 | It is small-minded to find many good reasons for suicide [Epicurus] |
4794 | We don't use laws to make predictions, we call things laws if we make predictions with them [Goodman] |
20820 | Time is an interval of motion, or the measure of speed [Posidonius, by Stobaeus] |