18 ideas
21463 | Hamann, Herder and Jacobi were key opponents of the Enlightenment [Gardner] |
21459 | Kant halted rationalism, and forced empiricists to worry about foundations [Gardner] |
21460 | Only Kant and Hegel have united nature, morals, politics, aesthetics and religion [Gardner] |
11257 | The Pythagoreans were the first to offer definitions [Politis, by Politis] |
21443 | Transcendental proofs derive necessities from possibilities (e.g. possibility of experiencing objects) [Gardner] |
11235 | 'True of' is applicable to things, while 'true' is applicable to words [Politis] |
19323 | 'Snow is white' depends on meaning; whether snow is white depends on snow [Etchemendy] |
19137 | We can get a substantive account of Tarski's truth by adding primitive 'true' to the object language [Etchemendy] |
14181 | Validity is where either the situation or the interpretation blocks true premises and false conclusion [Etchemendy, by Read] |
14180 | Etchemendy says fix the situation and vary the interpretation, or fix interpretations with varying situations [Etchemendy, by Read] |
21444 | Modern geoemtry is either 'pure' (and formal), or 'applied' (and a posteriori) [Gardner] |
11277 | Maybe 'What is being? is confusing because we can't ask what non-being is like [Politis] |
21453 | Leibnizian monads qualify as Kantian noumena [Gardner] |
11248 | Necessary truths can be two-way relational, where essential truths are one-way or intrinsic [Politis] |
8108 | Aesthetics presupposes a distinctive sort of experience, and a unified essence for art [Gardner] |
8112 | Art works originate in the artist's mind, and appreciation is re-creating this mental object [Gardner] |
8111 | Aesthetic objectivists must explain pleasure being essential, but not in the object [Gardner] |
8109 | Aesthetic judgements necessarily require first-hand experience, unlike moral judgements [Gardner] |