13 ideas
9271 | Human knowledge may not produce well-being; the examined life may not be worth living [Gray] |
23647 | Objects have an essential constitution, producing its qualities, which we are too ignorant to define [Reid] |
9212 | Possible states of affairs are not propositions; a proposition can't be a state of affairs! [Fine,K] |
11958 | Impossibilites are easily conceived in mathematics and geometry [Reid, by Molnar] |
9213 | The actual world is a possible world, so we can't define possible worlds as 'what might have been' [Fine,K] |
9275 | Knowledge does not need minds or nervous systems; it is found in all living things [Gray] |
9276 | The will hardly ever does anything; most of our life just happens to us [Gray] |
23646 | Reference is by name, or a term-plus-circumstance, or ostensively, or by description [Reid] |
23645 | A word's meaning is the thing conceived, as fixed by linguistic experts [Reid] |
9278 | Nowadays we identify the free life with the good life [Gray] |
9280 | Over forty percent of the Earth's living tissue is human [Gray] |
9272 | Without Christianity we lose the idea that human history has a meaning [Gray] |
9279 | What was our original sin, and how could Christ's suffering redeem it? [Gray] |