20 ideas
6851 | We overvalue whether arguments are valid, and undervalue whether they are interesting [Monk] |
17713 | After 1903, Husserl avoids metaphysical commitments [Mares] |
17715 | The truth of the axioms doesn't matter for pure mathematics, but it does for applied [Mares] |
17716 | Mathematics is relations between properties we abstract from experience [Mares] |
17703 | Light in straight lines is contingent a priori; stipulated as straight, because they happen to be so [Mares] |
17714 | Aristotelians dislike the idea of a priori judgements from pure reason [Mares] |
17705 | Empiricists say rationalists mistake imaginative powers for modal insights [Mares] |
17700 | The most popular view is that coherent beliefs explain one another [Mares] |
17704 | Operationalism defines concepts by our ways of measuring them [Mares] |
17710 | Aristotelian justification uses concepts abstracted from experience [Mares] |
17706 | The essence of a concept is either its definition or its conceptual relations? [Mares] |
17701 | Possible worlds semantics has a nice compositional account of modal statements [Mares] |
17702 | Unstructured propositions are sets of possible worlds; structured ones have components [Mares] |
6850 | Wittgenstein pared his life down in his search for decency [Monk] |
22594 | In 1794 France all individual and legal rights were suppressed by the general will [Dunt] |
22602 | Over several centuries a set of eight main liberal values was established [Dunt] |
22596 | No government, or the whole nation, can control an individual beyond legitimate scope [Dunt] |
22603 | Laissez-faire liberalism failed to give people the protections and freedoms needed for a good life [Dunt] |
22592 | Nationalism pretends that we can only have a single identity [Dunt] |
17708 | Maybe space has points, but processes always need regions with a size [Mares] |