16 ideas
3269 | If your life is to be meaningful as part of some large thing, the large thing must be meaningful [Nagel] |
22121 | The concept of being has only one meaning, whether talking of universals or of God [Duns Scotus, by Dumont] |
22122 | Being (not sensation or God) is the primary object of the intellect [Duns Scotus, by Dumont] |
22125 | Duns Scotus was a realist about universals [Duns Scotus, by Dumont] |
22127 | Scotus said a substantial principle of individuation [haecceitas] was needed for an essence [Duns Scotus, by Dumont] |
22126 | Avicenna and Duns Scotus say essences have independent and prior existence [Duns Scotus, by Dumont] |
22129 | Certainty comes from the self-evident, from induction, and from self-awareness [Duns Scotus, by Dumont] |
22130 | Scotus defended direct 'intuitive cognition', against the abstractive view [Duns Scotus, by Dumont] |
22128 | Augustine's 'illumination' theory of knowledge leads to nothing but scepticism [Duns Scotus, by Dumont] |
3270 | Justifications come to an end when we want them to [Nagel] |
9286 | Consciousness is not a stuff, but is explained by the relations between experiences [James] |
22131 | The will retains its power for opposites, even when it is acting [Duns Scotus, by Dumont] |
9285 | 'Consciousness' is a nonentity, a mere echo of the disappearing 'soul' [James] |
3268 | If a small brief life is absurd, then so is a long and large one [Nagel] |
22123 | The concept of God is the unique first efficient cause, final cause, and most eminent being [Duns Scotus, by Dumont] |
22124 | We can't infer the infinity of God from creation ex nihilo [Duns Scotus, by Dumont] |