15 ideas
9307 | Modern Western culture suddenly appeared in Jena in the 1790s [Svendsen] |
21552 | Common speech is vague; its vocabulary and syntax must be modified, for precision [Russell] |
9297 | You can't understand love in terms of 'if and only if...' [Svendsen] |
21551 | Empirical words need ostensive definition, which makes them egocentric [Russell] |
9308 | If subjective and objective begin to merge, then so do primary and secondary qualities [Svendsen] |
9309 | Emotions have intentional objects, while a mood is objectless [Svendsen] |
21550 | Science reduces indexicals to a minimum, but they can never be eliminated from empirical matters [Russell] |
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] |
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9303 | The concept of 'alienation' seems no longer applicable [Svendsen] |
9425 | Lewis later proposed the axioms at the intersection of the best theories (which may be few) [Mumford on Lewis] |