20 ideas
20320 | Truth is what unites, and the profound truths create a community [Jaspers] |
7755 | Singular terms refer, using proper names, definite descriptions, singular personal pronouns, demonstratives, etc. [Lycan] |
20323 | Freedom needs knowledge, the possibility of arbitrariness, and law [Jaspers] |
20322 | I am aware that freedom is possible, and the freedom is not in theory, but in seeking freedom [Jaspers] |
7768 | The truth conditions theory sees meaning as representation [Lycan] |
7766 | Meaning must be known before we can consider verification [Lycan] |
7764 | Could I successfully use an expression, without actually understanding it? [Lycan] |
7763 | It is hard to state a rule of use for a proper name [Lycan] |
7770 | Truth conditions will come out the same for sentences with 'renate' or 'cordate' [Lycan] |
7773 | A sentence's truth conditions is the set of possible worlds in which the sentence is true [Lycan] |
7774 | Possible worlds explain aspects of meaning neatly - entailment, for example, is the subset relation [Lycan] |
20324 | My freedom increases as I broaden my vision of possiblities and motives [Jaspers] |
20318 | My helplessness in philosophising reveals my being, and begins its upsurge [Jaspers] |
20321 | The struggle for Existenz is between people who are equals, and are utterly honest [Jaspers] |
20325 | Once we grasp freedom 'from' things, then freedom 'for' things becomes urgent [Jaspers] |
20317 | Mundane existence is general, falling under universals, but Existens is unique to individuals [Jaspers] |
20315 | 'Existenz' is the potential being, which I could have, and ought to have [Jaspers] |
20319 | We want the correct grasp on being that is neither solipsism nor absorption in the crowd [Jaspers] |
20316 | Every decision I make moves towards or away from fulfilled Existenz [Jaspers] |
19436 | Bare or primary matter is passive; it is clothed or secondary matter which contains action [Leibniz] |