29 ideas
15970 | People generalise because it is easier to understand, and that is mistaken for deep philosophy [Feynman] |
5662 | Maybe induction could never prove the existence of something unobservable [Ayer] |
5664 | Consciousness must involve a subject, and only bodies identify subjects [Ayer] |
5668 | People own conscious states because they are causally related to the identifying body [Ayer] |
5661 | We identify experiences by their owners, so we can't define owners by their experiences [Ayer] |
5665 | Memory is the best proposal as what unites bundles of experiences [Ayer] |
5666 | Not all exerience can be remembered, as this would produce an infinite regress [Ayer] |
5669 | Personal identity can't just be relations of experiences, because the body is needed to identify them [Ayer] |
23928 | Good art produces exaltation and detachment [Bell,C] |
23922 | The word 'beauty' leads to confusion, because it denotes distinct emotions [Bell,C] |
23921 | Our feeling for natural beauty is different from the aesthetic emotion of art [Bell,C] |
23929 | We only see landscapes as artistic if we ignore their instrumental value [Bell,C] |
23923 | Visual form can create a sublime mental state [Bell,C] |
23932 | Art is the expression of an emotion for ultimate reality [Bell,C] |
23927 | Aestheticism invites artist to create beauty, but with no indication of how to do it [Bell,C] |
8115 | Only artists can discern significant form; other people must look to art to find it [Bell,C, by Gardner] |
23924 | Maybe significant form gives us a feeling for ultimate reality [Bell,C] |
23931 | Significant form is the essence of art, which I believe expresses an emotion about reality [Bell,C] |
20434 | 'Form' is visual relations, and it is 'significant' if it moves us aesthetically; art needs both [Bell,C, by Feagin] |
23934 | The only expression art could have is the emotion resulting from pure form [Bell,C] |
23925 | Mere copies of pictures are not significant - unless the copies are very exact [Bell,C] |
23926 | Art is distinguished by its aesthetic emotion, which produces appropriate form [Bell,C] |
23933 | Aesthetic contemplation is the best and most intense mental state [Bell,C] |
23935 | Aesthetic experience is an exaltation which increases the possibilities of life [Bell,C] |
22691 | Only artistic qualities matter in art, because they also have the highest moral value [Bell,C] |
9410 | Physical Laws are rhythms and patterns in nature, revealed by analysis [Feynman] |
18530 | Nobody understands quantum mechanics [Feynman] |
17707 | We should regard space as made up of many tiny pieces [Feynman, by Mares] |
23930 | Religion sees infinite value in some things, and irrelevance in the rest [Bell,C] |