14 ideas
6950 | You can be rational with undetected or minor inconsistencies [Harman] |
6954 | A coherent conceptual scheme contains best explanations of most of your beliefs [Harman] |
6955 | Enumerative induction is inference to the best explanation [Harman] |
6952 | Induction is 'defeasible', since additional information can invalidate it [Harman] |
6953 | All reasoning is inductive, and deduction only concerns implication [Harman] |
5952 | Rather than being the whole soul, maybe I am its chief part? [Plutarch] |
5951 | If atoms have no qualities, they cannot possibly produce a mind [Plutarch] |
6951 | Ordinary rationality is conservative, starting from where your beliefs currently are [Harman] |
20796 | Action needs an affinity for a presentation, and an impulse toward the affinity [Plutarch] |
5948 | The good life involves social participation, loyalty, temperance and honesty [Plutarch] |
13304 | Learned men gain more in one day than others do in a lifetime [Posidonius] |
5950 | If only atoms exist, how do qualities arise when the atoms come together? [Plutarch] |
20820 | Time is an interval of motion, or the measure of speed [Posidonius, by Stobaeus] |
5955 | No one will ever find a city that lacks religious practices [Plutarch] |