17 ideas
20744 | Phenomenologists say all experience is about something and is directed [Aho] |
10993 | Ramsey's Test: believe the consequent if you believe the antecedent [Ramsey, by Read] |
14279 | Asking 'If p, will q?' when p is uncertain, then first add p hypothetically to your knowledge [Ramsey] |
20736 | Science has to abstract out the subjective attributes of things, focusing on what is objective [Aho] |
6894 | Mental terms can be replaced in a sentence by a variable and an existential quantifier [Ramsey] |
20734 | Anxiety, nausea, guilt and absurdity shake us up, revealing our freedom and limits [Aho] |
20733 | Our 'existence' is how we create ourselves, unconstrained by any prior 'essence' [Aho] |
20753 | The self is constituted by its choices made within a social context [Aho] |
20582 | World government needs a shared global identity [Oksala] |
20568 | The principles Rawls arrives at do not just conform to benevolence, but also result from choices [Oksala] |
20738 | Social contracts and markets have made society seem disconnected and artificial [Aho] |
20578 | Anarchists prefer local and communal government [Oksala] |
20574 | Utilitarianism neglects responsibility, duties and rights [Oksala] |
9418 | All knowledge needs systematizing, and the axioms would be the laws of nature [Ramsey] |
9420 | Causal laws result from the simplest axioms of a complete deductive system [Ramsey] |
20737 | Protestantism brought the modern emphasis on inner states of the soul [Aho] |
20766 | Four Noble Truths: life is suffering, caused by attachment, it is avoidable, there is a path [Aho] |