32 ideas
8220 | Philosophy is in a perpetual state of digression [Deleuze/Guattari] |
2516 | Most of philosophy begins where science leaves off [Katz] |
8217 | Philosophy is a concept-creating discipline [Deleuze/Guattari] |
2510 | Traditionally philosophy is an a priori enquiry into general truths about reality [Katz] |
8242 | Philosophy aims at what is interesting, remarkable or important - not at knowledge or truth [Deleuze/Guattari] |
8223 | The plague of philosophy is those who criticise without creating, and defend dead concepts [Deleuze/Guattari] |
8247 | Phenomenology needs art as logic needs science [Deleuze/Guattari] |
8224 | 'Eris' is the divinity of conflict, the opposite of Philia, the god of friendship [Deleuze/Guattari] |
18901 | Truthmakers are facts 'of' a domain, not something 'in' the domain [Sommers] |
18904 | 'Predicable' terms come in charged pairs, with one the negation of the other [Sommers, by Engelbretsen] |
18895 | Logic which maps ordinary reasoning must be transparent, and free of variables [Sommers] |
8219 | Logic has an infantile idea of philosophy [Deleuze/Guattari] |
8246 | Logic hates philosophy, and wishes to supplant it [Deleuze/Guattari] |
18897 | Predicate logic has to spell out that its identity relation '=' is an equivalent relation [Sommers] |
18893 | Translating into quantificational idiom offers no clues as to how ordinary thinkers reason [Sommers] |
18903 | Sommers promotes the old idea that negation basically refers to terms [Sommers, by Engelbretsen] |
18894 | Predicates form a hierarchy, from the most general, down to names at the bottom [Sommers] |
2521 | 'Real' maths objects have no causal role, no determinate reference, and no abstract/concrete distinction [Katz] |
18900 | Unfortunately for realists, modern logic cannot say that some fact exists [Sommers] |
8221 | We cannot judge the Cogito. Must we begin? Must we start from certainty? Can 'I' relate to thought? [Deleuze/Guattari] |
2513 | We don't have a clear enough sense of meaning to pronounce some sentences meaningless or just analytic [Katz] |
2522 | Experience cannot teach us why maths and logic are necessary [Katz] |
8222 | Concepts are superior because they make us more aware, and change our thinking [Deleuze/Guattari] |
8218 | Other people completely revise our perceptions, because they are possible worlds [Deleuze/Guattari] |
8248 | Phenomenology says thought is part of the world [Deleuze/Guattari] |
8245 | The logical attitude tries to turn concepts into functions, when they are really forms or forces [Deleuze/Guattari] |
2517 | Structuralists see meaning behaviouristically, and Chomsky says nothing about it [Katz] |
18898 | In standard logic, names are the only way to refer [Sommers] |
2519 | It is generally accepted that sense is defined as the determiner of reference [Katz] |
2520 | Sense determines meaning and synonymy, not referential properties like denotation and truth [Katz] |
2518 | Sentences are abstract types (like musical scores), not individual tokens [Katz] |
8243 | Atheism is the philosopher's serenity, and philosophy's achievement [Deleuze/Guattari] |