28 ideas
| 9247 | Life will be lived better if it has no meaning [Camus] |
| 6707 | Suicide - whether life is worth living - is the one serious philosophical problem [Camus] |
| 9245 | To an absurd mind reason is useless, and there is nothing beyond reason [Camus] |
| 18696 | The vagueness of truthmaker claims makes it easier to run anti-realist arguments [Button] |
| 18701 | The coherence theory says truth is coherence of thoughts, and not about objects [Button] |
| 9244 | Logic is easy, but what about logic to the point of death? [Camus] |
| 18694 | Permutation Theorem: any theory with a decent model has lots of models [Button] |
| 18692 | Realists believe in independent objects, correspondence, and fallibility of all theories [Button] |
| 18693 | Indeterminacy arguments say if a theory can be made true, it has multiple versions [Button] |
| 18695 | An ideal theory can't be wholly false, because its consistency implies a true model [Button] |
| 18700 | Cartesian scepticism doubts what is true; Kantian scepticism doubts that it is sayable [Button] |
| 18698 | Predictions give the 'content' of theories, which can then be 'equivalent' or 'adequate' [Button] |
| 9249 | Whether we are free is uninteresting; we can only experience our freedom [Camus] |
| 9253 | The human heart has a tiresome tendency to label as fate only what crushes it [Camus] |
| 18697 | A sentence's truth conditions are all the situations where it would be true [Button] |
| 9250 | Discussing ethics is pointless; moral people behave badly, and integrity doesn't need rules [Camus] |
| 9252 | The more one loves the stronger the absurd grows [Camus] |
| 9251 | One can be virtuous through a whim [Camus] |
| 6708 | Happiness and the absurd go together, each leading to the other [Camus] |
| 9243 | If we believe existence is absurd, this should dictate our conduct [Camus] |
| 9242 | Essential problems either risk death, or intensify the passion of life [Camus] |
| 9246 | Danger and integrity are not in the leap of faith, but in remaining poised just before the leap [Camus] |
| 21733 | The right-wing conception of freedom is based on the idea of self-ownership [Cohen,GA] |
| 21739 | Plenty of people have self-ownership, but still lack autonomy [Cohen,GA] |
| 21734 | It is plausible that no one has an initial right to own land and natural resources [Cohen,GA] |
| 21736 | It is doubtful whether any private property was originally acquired legitimately [Cohen,GA] |
| 21735 | Every thing which is now private started out as unowned [Cohen,GA] |
| 9248 | It is essential to die unreconciled and not of one's own free will [Camus] |