15 ideas
12036 | Xenophanes began the concern with knowledge [Annas] |
12046 | Plato was the first philosopher who was concerned to systematize his ideas [Annas] |
6211 | Laughter is a sudden glory in realising the infirmity of others, or our own formerly [Hobbes] |
19048 | Contextual definition shifted the emphasis from words to whole sentences [Quine] |
19047 | Bentham's contextual definitions preserved terms after their denotation became doubtful [Quine] |
19049 | In scientific theories sentences are too brief to be independent vehicles of empirical meaning [Quine] |
19046 | Empiricism improvements: words for ideas, then sentences, then systems, then no analytic, then naturalism [Quine] |
6213 | A man cannot will to will, or will to will to will, so the idea of a voluntary will is absurd [Hobbes] |
6208 | Conceptions and apparitions are just motion in some internal substance of the head [Hobbes] |
19050 | Holism in language blurs empirical synthetic and empty analytic sentences [Quine] |
12037 | Euripides's Medea is a key case of reason versus the passions [Annas] |
6209 | There is no absolute good, for even the goodness of God is goodness to us [Hobbes] |
6210 | Life has no end (not even happiness), because we have desires, which presuppose a further end [Hobbes] |
12040 | Virtue is a kind of understanding of moral value [Annas] |
6212 | Lust involves pleasure, and also the sense of power in pleasing others [Hobbes] |