25 ideas
9307 | Modern Western culture suddenly appeared in Jena in the 1790s [Svendsen] |
19259 | If 2-D conceivability can a priori show possibilities, this is a defence of conceptual analysis [Vaidya] |
9297 | You can't understand love in terms of 'if and only if...' [Svendsen] |
21945 | Foucault originally felt that liberating reason had become an instrument of domination [Foucault, by Gutting] |
19262 | Essential properties are necessary, but necessary properties may not be essential [Vaidya] |
19267 | Define conceivable; how reliable is it; does inconceivability help; and what type of possibility results? [Vaidya] |
19268 | Inconceivability (implying impossibility) may be failure to conceive, or incoherence [Vaidya] |
19265 | Can you possess objective understanding without realising it? [Vaidya] |
9308 | If subjective and objective begin to merge, then so do primary and secondary qualities [Svendsen] |
19260 | Gettier deductive justifications split the justification from the truthmaker [Vaidya] |
19266 | In a disjunctive case, the justification comes from one side, and the truth from the other [Vaidya] |
21942 | Foucault challenges knowledge in psychology and sociology, not in the basic sciences [Foucault, by Gutting] |
21941 | Unlike Marxists, Foucault explains thought internally, without deference to conscious ideas [Foucault, by Gutting] |
9309 | Emotions have intentional objects, while a mood is objectless [Svendsen] |
19264 | Aboutness is always intended, and cannot be accidental [Vaidya] |
21939 | The author function of any text is a plurality of selves [Foucault, by Gutting] |
9304 | Death appears to be more frightening the less one has lived [Svendsen] |
9298 | We can be unaware that we are bored [Svendsen] |
9301 | Boredom is so radical that suicide could not overcome it; only never having existed would do it [Svendsen] |
9302 | We are bored because everything comes to us fully encoded, and we want personal meaning [Svendsen] |
9310 | The profoundest boredom is boredom with boredom [Svendsen] |
21940 | Nature is not the basis of rights, but the willingness to risk death in asserting them [Foucault] |
9311 | We have achieved a sort of utopia, and it is boring, so that is the end of utopias [Svendsen] |
9303 | The concept of 'alienation' seems no longer applicable [Svendsen] |
21116 | Power is used to create identities and ways of life for other people [Foucault, by Shorten] |