17 ideas
15833 | Tell cleverness from answers, but wisdom from questions [Mahfouz] |
9307 | Modern Western culture suddenly appeared in Jena in the 1790s [Svendsen] |
14767 | The demonstrations of the metaphysicians are all moonshine [Peirce] |
9297 | You can't understand love in terms of 'if and only if...' [Svendsen] |
14764 | I am saturated with the spirit of physical science [Peirce] |
14768 | Infallibility in science is just a joke [Peirce] |
9308 | If subjective and objective begin to merge, then so do primary and secondary qualities [Svendsen] |
14765 | Association of ideas is the best philosophical idea of the prescientific age [Peirce] |
14766 | Duns Scotus offers perhaps the best logic and metaphysics for modern physical science [Peirce] |
9309 | Emotions have intentional objects, while a mood is objectless [Svendsen] |
9304 | Death appears to be more frightening the less one has lived [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] |
9298 | We can be unaware that we are bored [Svendsen] |
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9303 | The concept of 'alienation' seems no longer applicable [Svendsen] |