13 ideas
11193 | Understanding begins with the notion of being and essence [Avicenna] |
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] |
16664 | Everything that exists is either a substance or an accident [Albert of Saxony] |
6863 | Close to conceptual boundaries judgement is too unreliable to give knowledge [Williamson] |
11209 | The simple's whatness is its very self [Avicenna] |
6861 | What sort of logic is needed for vague concepts, and what sort of concept of truth? [Williamson] |
11204 | The ultimate material of things has the unity of total formlessness [Avicenna] |
15036 | An essence can either be universal (in the mind) or singular (in concrete particulars) [Avicenna, by Panaccio] |
16703 | God could make a successive thing so that previous parts cease to exist [Albert of Saxony] |
16699 | Successive entities just need parts to succeed one another, without their existence [Albert of Saxony] |
6860 | How can one discriminate yellow from red, but not the colours in between? [Williamson] |