15 ideas
5300 | Philosophers have interpreted the world, but the point is to change it [Marx] |
21552 | Common speech is vague; its vocabulary and syntax must be modified, for precision [Russell] |
5297 | Whether human thinking can be 'true' must be decided in practice, not theory [Marx] |
21551 | Empirical words need ostensive definition, which makes them egocentric [Russell] |
19544 | Closure says if you know P, and also know P implies Q, then you must know Q [Dretske] |
19545 | We needn't regret the implications of our regrets; regretting drinking too much implies the past is real [Dretske] |
19546 | Knowing by visual perception is not the same as knowing by implication [Dretske] |
19547 | Reasons for believing P may not transmit to its implication, Q [Dretske] |
19548 | The only way to preserve our homely truths is to abandon closure [Dretske] |
19549 | P may imply Q, but evidence for P doesn't imply evidence for Q, so closure fails [Dretske] |
19550 | We know past events by memory, but we don't know the past is real (an implication) by memory [Dretske] |
22598 | The authentic self exists at the level of class, rather than the individual [Marx, by Dunt] |
21550 | Science reduces indexicals to a minimum, but they can never be eliminated from empirical matters [Russell] |
5298 | The human essence is not found in individuals but in social relations [Marx] |
5299 | Religious feeling is social in origin [Marx] |