14 ideas
| 8594 | People have had good reasons for thinking that the circle has been squared [Shoemaker] |
| 8596 | Inability to measure equality doesn't make all lengths unequal [Shoemaker] |
| 8597 | We couldn't verify the earth's rotation if everyone simultaneously fell asleep [Shoemaker] |
| 8593 | Maybe billions of changeless years have elapsed since my last meal [Shoemaker] |
| 411 | If we succeed in speaking the truth, we cannot know we have done it [Xenophanes] |
| 412 | If God had not created honey, men would say figs are sweeter [Xenophanes] |
| 1640 | The basic Eleatic belief was that all things are one [Xenophanes, by Plato] |
| 8598 | If things turn red for an hour and then explode, we wouldn't say the redness was the cause [Shoemaker] |
| 4398 | An event causes another just if the second event would not have happened without the first [Lewis, by Psillos] |
| 4226 | If three regions 'freeze' every three, four and five years, after sixty years everything stops for a year [Shoemaker, by Lowe] |
| 8595 | If three regions freeze every 3rd, 4th and 5th year, they all freeze together every 60 years [Shoemaker] |
| 3055 | Xenophanes said the essence of God was spherical and utterly inhuman [Xenophanes, by Diog. Laertius] |
| 407 | Mortals believe gods are born, and have voices and clothes just like mortals [Xenophanes] |
| 408 | Ethiopian gods have black hair, and Thracian gods have red hair [Xenophanes] |