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1848 | We are coerced into assent to a truth by reason's violence [Aquinas] |
1858 | The mind is compelled by necessary truths, but not by contingent truths [Aquinas] |
1852 | For the mind Good is one truth among many, and Truth is one good among many [Aquinas] |
15105 | F(x) walked into a bar. The barman said.. [Sommers,W] |
12408 | Sartre to Waitress: Coffee with no cream, please... [Sommers,W] |
12397 | Said Plato: 'The things that we feel... [Sommers,W] |
12407 | Barman to Descartes: Would you like another drink?... [Sommers,W] |
12399 | There was a young student called Fred... [Sommers,W] |
20963 | A philosopher and his wife are out for a drive... [Sommers,W] |
12404 | Dear Sir, Your astonishment's odd.... [Sommers,W] |
12403 | There once was a man who said: 'God... [Sommers,W] |
12402 | ..But if he's a student of Berkeley... [Sommers,W] |
12409 | The philosopher Berkeley once said.. [Sommers,W] |
14694 | "My dog's got synaesthesia." How does he smell? ..... [Sommers,W] |
1860 | Knowledge may be based on senses, but we needn't sense all our knowledge [Aquinas] |
12401 | A toper who spies in the distance... [Sommers,W] |
1855 | If we saw something as totally and utterly good, we would be compelled to will it [Aquinas] |
1856 | Nothing can be willed except what is good, but good is very varied, and so choices are unpredictable [Aquinas] |
1862 | However habituated you are, given time to ponder you can go against a habit [Aquinas] |
1849 | Since will is a reasoning power, it can entertain opposites, so it is not compelled to embrace one of them [Aquinas] |
1861 | The will is not compelled to move, even if pleasant things are set before it [Aquinas] |
1853 | Because the will moves by examining alternatives, it doesn't compel itself to will [Aquinas] |
1854 | We must admit that when the will is not willing something, the first movement to will must come from outside the will [Aquinas] |
12410 | There once was a man who said 'Damn!... [Sommers,W] |
9392 | How do behaviourists greet each other? [Sommers,W] |
1847 | The will must aim at happiness, but can choose the means [Aquinas] |
1857 | We don't have to will even perfect good, because we can choose not to think of it [Aquinas] |
1846 | The will can only want what it thinks is good [Aquinas] |
1850 | Without free will not only is ethical action meaningless, but also planning, commanding, praising and blaming [Aquinas] |
1851 | Good applies to goals, just as truth applies to ideas in the mind [Aquinas] |
12405 | 'If you're aristocratic,' said Nietzsche... [Sommers,W] |
9391 | Why do anarchists drink herbal tea? [Sommers,W] |
13304 | Learned men gain more in one day than others do in a lifetime [Posidonius] |
12400 | Cries the maid: 'You must marry me Hume!'... [Sommers,W] |
16527 | Causation - we all thought we knew it/ Till Hume came along and saw through it/…. [Sommers,W] |
1859 | Even a sufficient cause doesn't compel its effect, because interference could interrupt the process [Aquinas] |
17592 | The barman called 'Time!', and Augustine said..... [Sommers,W] |
20820 | Time is an interval of motion, or the measure of speed [Posidonius, by Stobaeus] |
15208 | The past, present and future walked into a bar.... [Sommers,W] |