13 ideas
7396 | Hobbes created English-language philosophy [Hobbes, by Tuck] |
6602 | Philosophy is like a statue which is worshipped but never advances [Bacon] |
9379 | A sentence is obvious if it is true, and any speaker of the language will instantly agree to it [Quine] |
16724 | The senses deceive, but also show their own errors [Bacon] |
16638 | The qualities of the world are mere appearances; reality is the motions which cause them [Hobbes] |
16688 | Evidence is conception, which is imagination, which proceeds from the senses [Hobbes] |
7405 | Experience can't prove universal truths [Hobbes] |
6603 | Nature is revealed when we put it under pressure rather than observe it [Bacon] |
7408 | It is an error that reason should control the passions, which give right guidance on their own [Hobbes, by Tuck] |
7407 | Good and evil are what please us; goodness and badness the powers causing them [Hobbes] |
7410 | Self-preservation is basic, and people judge differently about that, implying ethical relativism [Hobbes, by Tuck] |
7409 | Hobbes shifted from talk of 'the good' to talk of 'rights' [Hobbes, by Tuck] |
7411 | The attributes of God just show our inability to conceive his nature [Hobbes] |