60 ideas
23948 | Wisdom needs both thought and passion, with each reflecting on the other [Solomon] |
23942 | Philosophy is creating an intellectual conceptual structure for life [Solomon] |
9978 | Analytic philosophy focuses too much on forms of expression, instead of what is actually said [Tait] |
23945 | Reason is actually passions, guided by perspicacious reflection [Solomon] |
18486 | We might define truth as arising from the truth-maker relation [MacBride] |
18484 | Phenomenalists, behaviourists and presentists can't supply credible truth-makers [MacBride] |
18466 | If truthmaking is classical entailment, then anything whatsoever makes a necessary truth [MacBride] |
18473 | 'Maximalism' says every truth has an actual truthmaker [MacBride] |
18481 | Maximalism follows Russell, and optimalism (no negative or universal truthmakers) follows Wittgenstein [MacBride] |
18483 | The main idea of truth-making is that what a proposition is about is what matters [MacBride] |
18479 | There are different types of truthmakers for different types of negative truth [MacBride] |
18477 | There aren't enough positive states out there to support all the negative truths [MacBride] |
18482 | Optimalists say that negative and universal are true 'by default' from the positive truths [MacBride] |
18474 | Does 'this sentence has no truth-maker' have a truth-maker? Reductio suggests it can't have [MacBride] |
18485 | Even idealists could accept truthmakers, as mind-dependent [MacBride] |
18490 | Maybe 'makes true' is not an active verb, but just a formal connective like 'because'? [MacBride] |
18493 | Truthmaker talk of 'something' making sentences true, which presupposes objectual quantification [MacBride] |
9986 | The null set was doubted, because numbering seemed to require 'units' [Tait] |
9984 | We can have a series with identical members [Tait] |
18489 | Connectives link sentences without linking their meanings [MacBride] |
18476 | 'A is F' may not be positive ('is dead'), and 'A is not-F' may not be negative ('is not blind') [MacBride] |
13416 | Mathematics must be based on axioms, which are true because they are axioms, not vice versa [Tait, by Parsons,C] |
8923 | Numbers are identified by their main properties and relations, involving the successor function [MacBride] |
8926 | For mathematical objects to be positions, positions themselves must exist first [MacBride] |
18480 | Maybe it only exists if it is a truthmaker (rather than the value of a variable)? [MacBride] |
18471 | Different types of 'grounding' seem to have no more than a family resemblance relation [MacBride] |
18472 | Which has priority - 'grounding' or 'truth-making'? [MacBride] |
18475 | Russell allows some complex facts, but Wittgenstein only allows atomic facts [MacBride] |
21354 | It may be that internal relations like proportion exist, because we directly perceive it [MacBride] |
21353 | Internal relations are fixed by existences, or characters, or supervenience on characters [MacBride] |
21352 | 'Multigrade' relations are those lacking a fixed number of relata [MacBride] |
18478 | Wittgenstein's plan to show there is only logical necessity failed, because of colours [MacBride] |
23957 | We often trust our intuitions as rational, despite their lack of reflection [Solomon] |
23943 | Distinguishing reason from passion is based on an archaic 'faculty' theory [Solomon] |
23952 | I say bodily chemistry and its sensations have nothing to do with emotions [Solomon] |
23954 | Emotions are judgements about ourselves, and our place in the world [Solomon] |
23960 | Emotions are defined by their objects [Solomon] |
23961 | The heart of an emotion is its judgement of values and morality [Solomon] |
23965 | Emotions can be analysed under fifteen headings [Solomon] |
23959 | Some emotions are externally directed, others internally [Solomon] |
23936 | It is only our passions which give our lives meaning [Solomon] |
23963 | Which emotions we feel depends on our sense of our own powers [Solomon] |
23946 | The passions are subjective, concerning what is important to me, rather than facts [Solomon] |
23940 | Emotions are strategies for maximising our sense of dignity and self-esteem [Solomon] |
23949 | Passions exist as emotions, moods and desires, which all generate meaning [Solomon] |
23956 | The Myth of the Passions says they are irrational, uncontrolled and damaging [Solomon] |
23953 | Feeling is a superficial aspect of emotion, and may be indeterminate, or even absent [Solomon] |
23964 | There are no 'basic' emotions, only socially prevalent ones [Solomon] |
23937 | It is reason which needs the anchorage of passions, rather than vice versa [Solomon] |
23947 | Dividing ourselves into confrontational reason and passion destroys our harmonious whole [Solomon] |
23958 | The supposed irrationality of our emotions is often tactless or faulty expression of them [Solomon] |
9981 | Abstraction is 'logical' if the sense and truth of the abstraction depend on the concrete [Tait] |
9982 | Cantor and Dedekind use abstraction to fix grammar and objects, not to carry out proofs [Tait] |
9985 | Abstraction may concern the individuation of the set itself, not its elements [Tait] |
9972 | Why should abstraction from two equipollent sets lead to the same set of 'pure units'? [Tait] |
9980 | If abstraction produces power sets, their identity should imply identity of the originals [Tait] |
23944 | Emotions are our life force, and the source of most of our values [Solomon] |
23962 | Lovers adopt the interests of their beloved, rather than just valuing them [Solomon] |
23941 | 'Absurdity' is just the result of our wrong choices in life [Solomon] |
23955 | Ideologies are mythologies which guide our actions [Solomon] |