15 ideas
6259 | Why can't a wise man doubt everything? [Montaigne] |
6263 | No wisdom could make us comfortably walk a wide beam if it was high in the air [Montaigne] |
6258 | Virtue is the distinctive mark of truth, and its greatest product [Montaigne] |
9358 | There are several logics, none of which will ever derive falsehoods from truth [Lewis,CI] |
9357 | Excluded middle is just our preference for a simplified dichotomy in experience [Lewis,CI] |
9364 | Names represent a uniformity in experience, or they name nothing [Lewis,CI] |
6262 | We lack some sense or other, and hence objects may have hidden features [Montaigne] |
9362 | Necessary truths are those we will maintain no matter what [Lewis,CI] |
9365 | We can maintain a priori principles come what may, but we can also change them [Lewis,CI] |
6260 | Sceptics say there is truth, but no means of making or testing lasting judgements [Montaigne] |
6261 | The soul is in the brain, as shown by head injuries [Montaigne] |
9361 | We have to separate the mathematical from physical phenomena by abstraction [Lewis,CI] |
13304 | Learned men gain more in one day than others do in a lifetime [Posidonius] |
9363 | Science seeks classification which will discover laws, essences, and predictions [Lewis,CI] |
20820 | Time is an interval of motion, or the measure of speed [Posidonius, by Stobaeus] |