12 ideas
6859 | Analytic philosophy has much higher standards of thinking than continental philosophy [Williamson] |
6862 | Fuzzy logic uses a continuum of truth, but it implies contradictions [Williamson] |
6858 | Formal logic struck me as exactly the language I wanted to think in [Williamson] |
6863 | Close to conceptual boundaries judgement is too unreliable to give knowledge [Williamson] |
16641 | Whiteness does not exist, but by it something can exist-as-white [Aquinas] |
6861 | What sort of logic is needed for vague concepts, and what sort of concept of truth? [Williamson] |
22170 | Senses grasp external properties, but the understanding grasps the essential natures of things [Aquinas] |
22169 | Initial universal truths are present within us as potential, to be drawn out by reason [Aquinas] |
6860 | How can one discriminate yellow from red, but not the colours in between? [Williamson] |
22168 | Minds take in a likeness of things, which activates an awaiting potential [Aquinas] |
16713 | Philosophers are the forefathers of heretics [Tertullian] |
6610 | I believe because it is absurd [Tertullian] |