49 ideas
7893 | Our life is the creation of our mind [Anon (Dham)] |
12330 | In ontology, logic dominated language, until logic was mathematized [Badiou] |
9808 | Philosophy aims to reveal the grandeur of mathematics [Badiou] |
12318 | The female body, when taken in its entirety, is the Phallus itself [Badiou] |
12325 | Philosophy has been relieved of physics, cosmology, politics, and now must give up ontology [Badiou] |
12324 | Consensus is the enemy of thought [Badiou] |
12337 | There is 'transivity' iff membership ∈ also means inclusion ⊆ [Badiou] |
12321 | The axiom of choice must accept an indeterminate, indefinable, unconstructible set [Badiou] |
12342 | Topos theory explains the plurality of possible logics [Badiou] |
12341 | Logic is a mathematical account of a universe of relations [Badiou] |
9812 | In mathematics, if a problem can be formulated, it will eventually be solved [Badiou] |
12335 | Numbers are for measuring and for calculating (and the two must be consistent) [Badiou] |
12334 | There is no single unified definition of number [Badiou] |
12333 | Each type of number has its own characteristic procedure of introduction [Badiou] |
12322 | Must we accept numbers as existing when they no longer consist of units? [Badiou] |
9813 | Mathematics shows that thinking is not confined to the finite [Badiou] |
12327 | The undecidability of the Continuum Hypothesis may have ruined or fragmented set theory [Badiou] |
12329 | If mathematics is a logic of the possible, then questions of existence are not intrinsic to it [Badiou] |
12328 | Platonists like axioms and decisions, Aristotelians like definitions, possibilities and logic [Badiou] |
12331 | Logic is definitional, but real mathematics is axiomatic [Badiou] |
12340 | There is no Being as a whole, because there is no set of all sets [Badiou] |
9809 | Mathematics inscribes being as such [Badiou] |
12323 | Existence is Being itself, but only as our thought decides it [Badiou] |
12332 | The modern view of Being comes when we reject numbers as merely successions of One [Badiou] |
12326 | The primitive name of Being is the empty set; in a sense, only the empty set 'is' [Badiou] |
9811 | It is of the essence of being to appear [Badiou] |
15200 | How could change consist of a conjunction of changeless facts? [McTaggart, by Le Poidevin] |
14761 | Change is not just having two different qualities at different points in some series [McTaggart] |
12320 | Ontology is (and always has been) Cantorian mathematics [Badiou] |
22628 | Substance has to exist, with no intrinsic qualities or relations [McTaggart] |
7898 | The world is just the illusion of an appearance [Anon (Dham)] |
12338 | We must either assert or deny any single predicate of any single subject [Badiou] |
9814 | All great poetry is engaged in rivalry with mathematics [Badiou] |
7894 | Hate is conquered by love [Anon (Dham)] |
7899 | Even divine pleasure will not satisfy the wise, as it is insatiable, and leads to pain [Anon (Dham)] |
7896 | The foolish gradually fill with evil, like a slowly-filled water-jar [Anon (Dham)] |
7897 | The wise gradually fill with good, like a slowly-filled water-jar [Anon (Dham)] |
7895 | Don't befriend fools; either find superior friends, or travel alone [Anon (Dham)] |
12316 | For Enlightenment philosophers, God was no longer involved in politics [Badiou] |
2608 | For McTaggart time is seen either as fixed, or as relative to events [McTaggart, by Ayer] |
22936 | A-series time positions are contradictory, and yet all events occupy all of them! [McTaggart, by Le Poidevin] |
4231 | Time involves change, only the A-series explains change, but it involves contradictions, so time is unreal [McTaggart, by Lowe] |
8591 | There could be no time if nothing changed [McTaggart] |
22935 | The B-series can be inferred from the A-series, but not the other way round [McTaggart, by Le Poidevin] |
7802 | A-series uses past, present and future; B-series uses 'before' and 'after' [McTaggart, by Girle] |
4230 | A-series expressions place things in time, and their truth varies; B-series is relative, and always true [McTaggart, by Lowe] |
15199 | The B-series must depend on the A-series, because change must be explained [McTaggart, by Le Poidevin] |
7900 | Speak the truth, yield not to anger, give what you can to him who asks [Anon (Dham)] |
12317 | The God of religion results from an encounter, not from a proof [Badiou] |