22 ideas
9307 | Modern Western culture suddenly appeared in Jena in the 1790s [Svendsen] |
2516 | Most of philosophy begins where science leaves off [Katz] |
2510 | Traditionally philosophy is an a priori enquiry into general truths about reality [Katz] |
9297 | You can't understand love in terms of 'if and only if...' [Svendsen] |
2521 | 'Real' maths objects have no causal role, no determinate reference, and no abstract/concrete distinction [Katz] |
2513 | We don't have a clear enough sense of meaning to pronounce some sentences meaningless or just analytic [Katz] |
9308 | If subjective and objective begin to merge, then so do primary and secondary qualities [Svendsen] |
2522 | Experience cannot teach us why maths and logic are necessary [Katz] |
9309 | Emotions have intentional objects, while a mood is objectless [Svendsen] |
2517 | Structuralists see meaning behaviouristically, and Chomsky says nothing about it [Katz] |
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] |
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] |
20759 | Feelings are prior to intelligence; we should be content to live with our simplest feelings [Rousseau] |
9311 | We have achieved a sort of utopia, and it is boring, so that is the end of utopias [Svendsen] |
19854 | We all owe labour in return for our keep, and every idle citizen is a thief [Rousseau] |
9303 | The concept of 'alienation' seems no longer applicable [Svendsen] |