There is something inside your mind, called a “Propositional Attitude” which has a truth value regardless of the world around you. The truth value sits on your mind.
You are muddling propositions and propositional attitudes.
Now for the primitive ones (these are extremely relaxed, and angry, descriptions/summaries): Man is naturally good, but rich people made a contract which started a bad nature. Rousseau
Man is naturally mean, but an abstract entity made itself as of the creation of a social contract (implicit or explicit) and that is what prevents evil from spreading. Hobbes.
Not taught as facts. More likely to be taught as compare-and-contrast.
Angels are separated by 72 Kilometers each in the heavens. Aquinas.
Absolutely definitley not taught as fact, and unlikely to be touched on outside of specialist mediaeval phil. courses.
Brace yourselves for this one: That of which nothing greater can be thought is smaller than not that of which nothing greater can be thought, thus the latter can’t exist (don’t ask for what sense of smaller), because it can’t exist, there is one thing that is that of which nothing grater can be thought, and since its negation can’t be thought, all its properties must be positive, and it is God, because it is great and undeniable. Anselm. (ok, I grant that I forgot the bulk of his original since last reading it in 2007… but it is along these lines
INVARIABLY taught as somethign that was trashed by subsequent philosophers. Couldn’t be wronger.
whats wrong with that?
You are muddling propositions and propositional attitudes.
Not taught as facts. More likely to be taught as compare-and-contrast.
Absolutely definitley not taught as fact, and unlikely to be touched on outside of specialist mediaeval phil. courses.
INVARIABLY taught as somethign that was trashed by subsequent philosophers. Couldn’t be wronger.