46 ideas
9247 | Life will be lived better if it has no meaning [Camus] |
12330 | In ontology, logic dominated language, until logic was mathematized [Badiou] |
6707 | Suicide - whether life is worth living - is the one serious philosophical problem [Camus] |
9808 | Philosophy aims to reveal the grandeur of mathematics [Badiou] |
9245 | To an absurd mind reason is useless, and there is nothing beyond reason [Camus] |
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] |
9244 | Logic is easy, but what about logic to the point of death? [Camus] |
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] |
9809 | Mathematics inscribes being as such [Badiou] |
12340 | There is no Being as a whole, because there is no set of all sets [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] |
12320 | Ontology is (and always has been) Cantorian mathematics [Badiou] |
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] |
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] |
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] |
12316 | For Enlightenment philosophers, God was no longer involved in politics [Badiou] |
9248 | It is essential to die unreconciled and not of one's own free will [Camus] |
8326 | Science has shown that causal relations are just transfers of energy or momentum [Fair, by Sosa/Tooley] |
10379 | Fair shifted his view to talk of counterfactuals about energy flow [Fair, by Schaffer,J] |
12317 | The God of religion results from an encounter, not from a proof [Badiou] |