15 ideas
| 7396 | Hobbes created English-language philosophy [Hobbes, by Tuck] |
| 12801 | Coherentists seek relations among beliefs that are simple, conservative and explanatory [Foley] |
| 19433 | The universe is infinitely varied, so the Buridan's Ass dilemma could never happen [Leibniz] |
| 19434 | There may be a world where dogs smell their game at a thousand leagues [Leibniz] |
| 16638 | The qualities of the world are mere appearances; reality is the motions which cause them [Hobbes] |
| 16688 | Evidence is conception, which is imagination, which proceeds from the senses [Hobbes] |
| 7405 | Experience can't prove universal truths [Hobbes] |
| 12800 | Externalists want to understand knowledge, Internalists want to understand justification [Foley] |
| 12802 | We aren't directly pragmatic about belief, but pragmatic about the deliberation which precedes it [Foley] |
| 12803 | Justification comes from acceptable procedures, given practical constraints [Foley] |
| 7408 | It is an error that reason should control the passions, which give right guidance on their own [Hobbes, by Tuck] |
| 7407 | Good and evil are what please us; goodness and badness the powers causing them [Hobbes] |
| 7410 | Self-preservation is basic, and people judge differently about that, implying ethical relativism [Hobbes, by Tuck] |
| 7409 | Hobbes shifted from talk of 'the good' to talk of 'rights' [Hobbes, by Tuck] |
| 7411 | The attributes of God just show our inability to conceive his nature [Hobbes] |