9 ideas
20728 | Metaphysics is hopeless with its present epistemology; common-sense realism is needed [Colvin] |
20726 | We can only distinguish self from non-self if there is an inflexible external reality [Colvin] |
20727 | Common-sense realism rests on our interests and practical life [Colvin] |
20730 | If objects are doubted because their appearances change, that presupposes one object [Colvin] |
20729 | Arguments that objects are unknowable or non-existent assume the knower's existence [Colvin] |
20731 | The idea that everything is relations is contradictory; relations are part of the concept of things [Colvin] |
15312 | We get the idea of power by abstracting from ropes, magnets and electric shocks [Priestley] |
19589 | The whole point of a monarch is that we accept them as a higher-born, ideal person [Novalis] |
15311 | Attraction or repulsion are not imparted to matter, but actually constitute it [Priestley] |