17 ideas
9307 | Modern Western culture suddenly appeared in Jena in the 1790s [Svendsen] |
22153 | Quine rejects Carnap's view that science and philosophy are distinct [Quine, by Boulter] |
9297 | You can't understand love in terms of 'if and only if...' [Svendsen] |
6782 | Realism is the only philosophy of science that doesn't make the success of science a miracle [Putnam] |
22181 | Putnam says anti-realism is a bad explanation of accurate predictions [Putnam, by Okasha] |
19485 | Names have no ontological commitment, because we can deny that they name anything [Quine] |
19486 | We can use quantification for commitment to unnameable things like the real numbers [Quine] |
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] |
19487 | Without the analytic/synthetic distinction, Carnap's ontology/empirical distinction collapses [Quine] |
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9303 | The concept of 'alienation' seems no longer applicable [Svendsen] |