12 ideas
| 20955 | Art can make reason more all-inclusive, by articulating what seemed inexpressible [Bowie] |
| 1630 | We can only see an alien language in terms of our own thought structures (e.g. physical/abstract) [Quine] |
| 21628 | To say reality itself is vague is not properly intelligible [Dummett] |
| 5747 | "No entity without identity" - our ontology must contain items with settled identity conditions [Quine, by Melia] |
| 7925 | There is no proper identity concept for properties, and it is hard to distinguish one from two [Quine] |
| 13387 | Our conceptual scheme becomes more powerful when we posit abstract objects [Quine] |
| 8277 | I prefer 'no object without identity' to Quine's 'no entity without identity' [Lowe on Quine] |
| 20950 | German Idealism says our thinking and nature have the same rational structure [Bowie] |
| 20942 | Nazis think race predetermines the self [Bowie] |
| 20946 | Rhetoric is built into language, so it cannot be stripped from philosophy [Bowie] |
| 1631 | You could know the complete behavioural conditions for a foreign language, and still not know their beliefs [Quine] |
| 1632 | Translation of our remote past or language could be as problematic as alien languages [Quine] |