20 ideas
22701 | Jokes can sometimes be funny because they are offensive [Jacobson,D] |
12452 | Our dislike of contradiction in logic is a matter of psychology, not mathematics [Brouwer] |
15941 | For intuitionists excluded middle is an outdated historical convention [Brouwer] |
18119 | Mathematics is a mental activity which does not use language [Brouwer, by Bostock] |
18247 | Brouwer saw reals as potential, not actual, and produced by a rule, or a choice [Brouwer, by Shapiro] |
12451 | Scientific laws largely rest on the results of counting and measuring [Brouwer] |
18118 | Brouwer regards the application of mathematics to the world as somehow 'wicked' [Brouwer, by Bostock] |
12454 | Intuitionists only accept denumerable sets [Brouwer] |
12453 | Neo-intuitionism abstracts from the reuniting of moments, to intuit bare two-oneness [Brouwer] |
8728 | Intuitionist mathematics deduces by introspective construction, and rejects unknown truths [Brouwer] |
20752 | For man, being is not what he is, but what he is going to be [Ortega y Gassett] |
10117 | Intuitonists in mathematics worried about unjustified assertion, as well as contradiction [Brouwer, by George/Velleman] |
22703 | We don't often respond to events in art as if they were real events [Jacobson,D] |
22702 | Audiences can be too moral [Jacobson,D] |
22696 | 'Autonomism' says the morality is irrelevant to the aesthetics [Jacobson,D] |
22697 | Moral defects of art can be among its aesthetic virtues [Jacobson,D] |
22700 | Immoral art encourages immoral emotions [Jacobson,D] |
22699 | Moderate moralism says moral qualities can sometimes also be aesthetic qualities [Jacobson,D] |
22698 | We can judge art ethically, or rate its ethical influence, or assess its quality via its ethics [Jacobson,D] |
20756 | Instead of having a nature, man only has a history [Ortega y Gassett] |