13 ideas
| 22752 | Reasoning is impossible without a preconception [Sext.Empiricus] |
| 5637 | Nowadays logic is seen as the science of extensions, not intensions [Scruton] |
| 11993 | Jones may cease to exist without some simple property, but that doesn't make it essential [Kung] |
| 11997 | A property may belong essentially to one thing and contingently to another [Kung] |
| 11992 | Aristotelian essences underlie a thing's existence, explain it, and must belong to it [Kung] |
| 11995 | Some peripheral properties are explained by essential ones, but don't themselves explain properties [Kung] |
| 11996 | Some non-essential properties may explain more than essential-but-peripheral ones do [Kung] |
| 5636 | Cartesian 'ideas' confuse concepts and propositions [Scruton] |
| 22754 | Saying the good is useful or choiceworth or happiness-creating is not the good, but a feature of it [Sext.Empiricus] |
| 22755 | Like a warming fire, what is good by nature should be good for everyone [Sext.Empiricus] |
| 22756 | If a desire is itself desirable, then we shouldn't desire it, as achieving it destroys it [Sext.Empiricus] |
| 5660 | Allegiance is prior to the recognition of individual rights [Scruton] |
| 5653 | A right is a power which is enforced in the name of justice [Scruton] |