35 ideas
| 5784 | In its primary and formal sense, 'true' applies to propositions, not beliefs [Russell] |
| 5777 | The truth or falsehood of a belief depends upon a fact to which the belief 'refers' [Russell] |
| 5783 | Propositions of existence, generalities, disjunctions and hypotheticals make correspondence tricky [Russell] |
| 2526 | Philosophers regularly confuse failures of imagination with insights into necessity [Dennett] |
| 5780 | The three questions about belief are its contents, its success, and its character [Russell] |
| 2523 | That every mammal has a mother is a secure reality, but without foundations [Dennett] |
| 2528 | Does consciousness need the concept of consciousness? [Dennett] |
| 2525 | Maybe language is crucial to consciousness [Dennett] |
| 2527 | Unconscious intentionality is the foundation of the mind [Dennett] |
| 5778 | If we object to all data which is 'introspective' we will cease to believe in toothaches [Russell] |
| 2530 | Could a robot be made conscious just by software? [Dennett] |
| 5779 | There are distinct sets of psychological and physical causal laws [Russell] |
| 2524 | A language of thought doesn't explain content [Dennett] |
| 2529 | Maybe there can be non-conscious concepts (e.g. in bees) [Dennett] |
| 5781 | Our important beliefs all, if put into words, take the form of propositions [Russell] |
| 5782 | A proposition expressed in words is a 'word-proposition', and one of images an 'image-proposition' [Russell] |
| 5776 | A proposition is what we believe when we believe truly or falsely [Russell] |
| 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] |
| 23930 | Religion sees infinite value in some things, and irrelevance in the rest [Bell,C] |