34 ideas
7973 | There is no longer anything on which there is nothing to say [Baudrillard] |
17651 | Without words or other symbols, we have no world [Goodman] |
7975 | The task of philosophy is to unmask the illusion of objective reality [Baudrillard] |
7986 | Drunken boat pilots are less likely to collide than clearly focused ones [Baudrillard] |
7982 | Instead of thesis and antithesis leading to synthesis, they now cancel out, and the conflict is levelled [Baudrillard] |
17652 | Truth is irrelevant if no statements are involved [Goodman] |
17656 | Being primitive or prior always depends on a constructional system [Goodman] |
17661 | We don't recognise patterns - we invent them [Goodman] |
17659 | Reality is largely a matter of habit [Goodman] |
7974 | Without God we faced reality: what do we face without reality? [Baudrillard] |
17657 | We build our world, and ignore anything that won't fit [Goodman] |
7987 | Nothing is true, but everything is exact [Baudrillard] |
17654 | A world can be full of variety or not, depending on how we sort it [Goodman] |
17653 | Things can only be judged the 'same' by citing some respect of sameness [Goodman] |
22868 | The value and truth of knowledge are measured by success in activity [Dewey] |
17660 | Discovery is often just finding a fit, like a jigsaw puzzle [Goodman] |
17658 | Users of digital thermometers recognise no temperatures in the gaps [Goodman] |
17650 | We lack frames of reference to transform physics, biology and psychology into one another [Goodman] |
17655 | Grue and green won't be in the same world, as that would block induction entirely [Goodman] |
22865 | Habits constitute the self [Dewey] |
7978 | There is no need to involve the idea of free will to make choices about one's life [Baudrillard] |
7980 | In modern times, being useless is the essential aesthetic ingredient for an object [Baudrillard] |
7983 | Good versus evil has been banefully reduced to happiness versus misfortune [Baudrillard] |
22871 | The good people are those who improve; the bad are those who deteriorate [Dewey] |
7981 | Whole populations are terrorist threats to authorities, who unite against them [Baudrillard] |
22876 | Democracy is the development of human nature when it shares in the running of communal activities [Dewey] |
22875 | Democracy is not just a form of government; it is a mode of shared living [Dewey] |
7976 | People like democracy because it means they can avoid power [Baudrillard] |
22874 | Individuality is only developed within groups [Dewey] |
7977 | Only in the last 200 years have people demanded the democratic privilege of being individuals [Baudrillard] |
7979 | The arrival of the news media brought history to an end [Baudrillard] |
7984 | Suicide is ascribed to depression, with the originality of the act of will ignored [Baudrillard] |
17649 | If the world is one it has many aspects, and if there are many worlds they will collect into one [Goodman] |
7985 | Pascal says secular life is acceptable, but more fun with the hypothesis of God [Baudrillard] |