30 ideas
21852 | Nomads are the basis of history, and yet almost unknowable [Deleuze] |
21844 | The history of philosophy is an agent of power: how can you think if you haven't read the great names? [Deleuze] |
21849 | Thought should be thrown like a stone from a war-machine [Deleuze] |
21845 | Philosophy aims to become the official language, supporting orthodoxy and the state [Deleuze] |
21839 | When I meet objections I just move on; they never contribute anything [Deleuze] |
21901 | 'Difference' refers to that which eludes capture [Deleuze, by May] |
21841 | We must create new words, and treat them as normal, and as if designating real things. [Deleuze] |
12801 | Coherentists seek relations among beliefs that are simple, conservative and explanatory [Foley] |
21842 | Don't assess ideas for truth or justice; look for another idea, and establish a relationship with it [Deleuze] |
21850 | Dualisms can be undone from within, by tracing connections, and drawing them to a new path [Deleuze] |
21838 | Before we seek solutions, it is important to invent problems [Deleuze] |
21902 | 'Being' is univocal, but its subject matter is actually 'difference' [Deleuze] |
21908 | Ontology can be continual creation, not to know being, but to probe the unknowable [Deleuze] |
21899 | There is no being beyond becoming [Deleuze] |
21847 | Before Being there is politics [Deleuze] |
21903 | Ontology does not tell what there is; it is just a strange adventure [Deleuze, by May] |
21904 | Being is a problem to be engaged, not solved, and needs a new mode of thinking [Deleuze, by May] |
21907 | We don't want another new set of categories; we want a variety of flexible categories [Deleuze, by May] |
14596 | Call 'nominalism' the denial of numbers, properties, relations and sets [Dorr] |
14597 | Natural Class Nominalism says there are primitive classes of things resembling in one respect [Dorr] |
14598 | Abstracta imply non-logical brute necessities, so only nominalists can deny such things [Dorr] |
19708 | Rational internal belief is conviction that a proposition enhances a belief system [Foley, by Vahid] |
12800 | Externalists want to understand knowledge, Internalists want to understand justification [Foley] |
12802 | We aren't directly pragmatic about belief, but pragmatic about the deliberation which precedes it [Foley] |
12803 | Justification comes from acceptable procedures, given practical constraints [Foley] |
21840 | A meeting of man and animal can be deterritorialization (like a wasp with an orchid) [Deleuze] |
21843 | People consist of many undetermined lines, some rigid, some supple, some 'lines of flight' [Deleuze] |
21853 | We are currently extending capitalism to the whole of society [Deleuze] |
21848 | Some lines (of flight) are becomings which escape the system [Deleuze] |
21851 | The State requires self-preservation, but the war-machine desires destruction [Deleuze] |