9 ideas
21552 | Common speech is vague; its vocabulary and syntax must be modified, for precision [Russell] |
8988 | Two marxist ideas have dominated in France: base and superstructure, and ideology [Scruton] |
8987 | On the surface of deconstructive writing, technicalities float and then drift away [Scruton] |
8992 | Deconstruction is the last spasm of romanticism, now become hopeless and destructive [Scruton] |
21551 | Empirical words need ostensive definition, which makes them egocentric [Russell] |
21550 | Science reduces indexicals to a minimum, but they can never be eliminated from empirical matters [Russell] |
8989 | The benefits of social freedom outweigh the loneliness, doubt and alienation it brings [Scruton] |
8990 | So-called 'liberation' is the enemy of freedom, destroying the very structures that are needed [Scruton] |
4677 | If suicide is wrong because only God disposes of our lives, it must also be wrong to save lives [Hume] |