24 ideas
7426 | Critical philosophy is what questions domination at every level [Foucault] |
7423 | Philosophy and politics are fundamentally linked [Foucault] |
8952 | We reach 'reflective equilibrium' when intuitions and theory completely align [Fisher] |
7420 | When logos controls our desires, we have actually become the logos [Foucault] |
8943 | Three-valued logic says excluded middle and non-contradition are not tautologies [Fisher] |
8945 | Fuzzy logic has many truth values, ranging in fractions from 0 to 1 [Fisher] |
8951 | Classical logic is: excluded middle, non-contradiction, contradictions imply all, disjunctive syllogism [Fisher] |
8950 | Logic formalizes how we should reason, but it shouldn't determine whether we are realists [Fisher] |
8946 | We could make our intuitions about heaps precise with a million-valued logic [Fisher] |
8944 | Vagueness can involve components (like baldness), or not (like boredom) [Fisher] |
8941 | We can't explain 'possibility' in terms of 'possible' worlds [Fisher] |
8947 | If all truths are implied by a falsehood, then not-p might imply both q and not-q [Fisher] |
8949 | In relevance logic, conditionals help information to flow from antecedent to consequent [Fisher] |
7424 | Saying games of truth were merely power relations would be a horrible exaggeration [Foucault] |
7422 | A subject is a form which can change, in (say) political or sexual situations [Foucault] |
7419 | Ethics is the conscious practice of freedom [Foucault] |
20725 | The idea of duty in one's calling haunts us, like a lost religion [Weber] |
7425 | The aim is not to eliminate power relations, but to reduce domination [Foucault] |
20722 | Acquisition and low consumption lead to saving, investment, and increased wealth [Weber] |
20724 | When asceticism emerged from the monasteries, it helped to drive the modern economy [Weber] |
20717 | Capitalism is not unlimited greed, and may even be opposed to greed [Weber] |
20718 | Modern western capitalism has free labour, business separate from household, and book-keeping [Weber] |
7418 | The idea of liberation suggests there is a human nature which has been repressed [Foucault] |
20719 | Punish the heretic, but be indulgent to the sinner [Weber] |