23 ideas
9978 | Analytic philosophy focuses too much on forms of expression, instead of what is actually said [Tait] |
9986 | The null set was doubted, because numbering seemed to require 'units' [Tait] |
9984 | We can have a series with identical members [Tait] |
8228 | Being is revealed at the point between waking and sleep [Anon (Cent)] |
5163 | Basic propositions refer to a single experience, are incorrigible, and conclusively verifiable [Ayer] |
8232 | Neglect your self, and feel the consciousness of each other being [Anon (Cent)] |
5167 | The argument from analogy fails, so the best account of other minds is behaviouristic [Ayer] |
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] |
5164 | A statement is meaningful if observation statements can be deduced from it [Ayer] |
5165 | Directly verifiable statements must entail at least one new observation statement [Ayer] |
5166 | The principle of verification is not an empirical hypothesis, but a definition [Ayer] |
5162 | Sentences only express propositions if they are meaningful; otherwise they are 'statements' [Ayer] |
8230 | Just as you have the impulse to do something, stop [Anon (Cent)] |
5168 | Moral approval and disapproval concerns classes of actions, rather than particular actions [Ayer] |
8234 | Bondage and liberation are relative terms, which only frighten those already terrified of the universe [Anon (Cent)] |
8227 | Feel your whole body saturated with cosmic essence [Anon (Cent)] |
8231 | Abandon attachment to body, and feel the joy of being everywhere [Anon (Cent)] |
8229 | The serenity in blue sky beyond clouds [Anon (Cent)] |
8233 | Imagine fire burning up your whole body, but not you [Anon (Cent)] |