15 ideas
2945 | Most philosophers start with reality and then examine knowledge; Descartes put the study of knowledge first [Lehrer] |
2946 | You cannot demand an analysis of a concept without knowing the purpose of the analysis [Lehrer] |
20955 | Art can make reason more all-inclusive, by articulating what seemed inexpressible [Bowie] |
22049 | Transcendental idealism aims to explain objectivity through subjectivity [Bowie] |
20950 | German Idealism says our thinking and nature have the same rational structure [Bowie] |
22055 | The Idealists saw the same unexplained spontaneity in Kant's judgements and choices [Bowie] |
22054 | German Idealism tried to stop oppositions of appearances/things and receptivity/spontaneity [Bowie] |
22056 | Crucial to Idealism is the idea of continuity between receptivity and spontaneous judgement [Bowie] |
9329 | Justification is coherence with a background system; if irrefutable, it is knowledge [Lehrer] |
13165 | Geometrical proofs do not show causes, as when we prove a triangle contains two right angles [Proclus] |
9330 | Generalization seems to be more fundamental to minds than spotting similarities [Lehrer] |
9328 | All conscious states can be immediately known when attention is directed to them [Lehrer] |
20942 | Nazis think race predetermines the self [Bowie] |
9569 | The origin of geometry started in sensation, then moved to calculation, and then to reason [Proclus] |
20946 | Rhetoric is built into language, so it cannot be stripped from philosophy [Bowie] |