7 ideas
22820 | Early Romantics sought a plurality of systems, in a quest for freedom [Hösle] |
21552 | Common speech is vague; its vocabulary and syntax must be modified, for precision [Russell] |
21551 | Empirical words need ostensive definition, which makes them egocentric [Russell] |
8978 | Events are made of other things, and are not fundamental to ontology [Bennett] |
21550 | Science reduces indexicals to a minimum, but they can never be eliminated from empirical matters [Russell] |
22819 | In the 18th century history came to be seen as progressive, rather than cyclical [Hösle] |
10364 | Facts are about the world, not in it, so they can't cause anything [Bennett] |