12 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] |
8526 | We might treat both tropes and substances as fundamental, so we can't presume it is just tropes [Daly] |
8527 | More than one trope (even identical ones!) can occupy the same location [Daly] |
8528 | If tropes are linked by the existence of concurrence, a special relation is needed to link them all [Daly] |
8593 | Maybe billions of changeless years have elapsed since my last meal [Shoemaker] |
20759 | Feelings are prior to intelligence; we should be content to live with our simplest feelings [Rousseau] |
19854 | We all owe labour in return for our keep, and every idle citizen is a thief [Rousseau] |
8598 | If things turn red for an hour and then explode, we wouldn't say the redness was the cause [Shoemaker] |
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] |