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Single Idea 21839
[filed under theme 1. Philosophy / F. Analytic Philosophy / 7. Limitations of Analysis
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Full Idea
Not reflection, and objections are even worse. Every time someone puts an objection to me, I want to say: 'OK, OK, let's get on to something else'. Objections have never contributed anything.
Gist of Idea
When I meet objections I just move on; they never contribute anything
Source
Gilles Deleuze (A Conversation: what is it? What is it for? [1977], I)
Book Ref
Deleuze,Gilles: 'Dialogues II' [Continuum 2006], p.1
A Reaction
I know it is heresy in analytic philosophy, but I love this! In analytic seminars you can barely complete your first sentence before someone interrupts. It's like road range - the philosophical mind state is always poised to attack, attack.
The
19 ideas
with the same theme
[why analysis is trivial, limited or hopeless]:
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1645
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The desire to split everything into its parts is unpleasant and unphilosophical
[Plato]
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22
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Trained minds never expect more precision than is possible
[Aristotle]
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14165
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Analysis falsifies, if when the parts are broken down they are not equivalent to their sum
[Russell]
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18714
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We already know what we want to know, and analysis gives us no new facts
[Wittgenstein]
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23499
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This book says we should either say it clearly, or shut up
[Wittgenstein]
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5195
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Critics say analysis can only show the parts, and not their distinctive configuration
[Ayer]
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21839
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When I meet objections I just move on; they never contribute anything
[Deleuze]
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17663
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If you know what it is, investigation is pointless. If you don't, investigation is impossible
[Armstrong]
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2557
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Analytical philosophy seems to have little interest in how to tell a good analysis from a bad one
[Rorty]
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2481
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Despite all the efforts of philosophers, nothing can ever be reduced to anything
[Fodor]
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17082
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Paradox: why do you analyse if you know it, and how do you analyse if you don't?
[Ruben]
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2958
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No one has ever succeeded in producing an acceptable non-trivial analysis of anything
[Lockwood]
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3352
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Analytical philosophy analyses separate concepts successfully, but lacks a synoptic vision of the results
[Benardete,JA]
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9978
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Analytic philosophy focuses too much on forms of expression, instead of what is actually said
[Tait]
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6881
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Analytic philosophy studies the unimportant, and sharpens tools instead of using them
[Mautner]
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10571
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Concern for rigour can get in the way of understanding phenomena
[Fine,K]
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9297
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You can't understand love in terms of 'if and only if...'
[Svendsen]
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9136
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The paradox of analysis says that any conceptual analysis must be either trivial or false
[Sorensen]
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11147
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Naturalistic philosophers oppose analysis, preferring explanation to a priori intuition
[Margolis/Laurence]
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