43 ideas
| 8093 | Seek wisdom rather than truth; it is easier [Joubert] |
| 19441 | All philosophies presuppose their historical moment, and arise from it [Feuerbach] |
| 8095 | We must think with our entire body and soul [Joubert] |
| 19442 | I don't study Plato for his own sake; the primary aim is always understanding [Feuerbach] |
| 8107 | The love of certainty holds us back in metaphysics [Joubert] |
| 8099 | The truths of reason instruct, but they do not illuminate [Joubert] |
| 19444 | Each proposition has an antithesis, and truth exists as its refutation [Feuerbach] |
| 19445 | A dialectician has to be his own opponent [Feuerbach] |
| 8098 | Truth consists of having the same idea about something that God has [Joubert] |
| 19443 | Truth forges an impersonal unity between people [Feuerbach] |
| 14480 | Maybe analytic truths do not require truth-makers, as they place no demands on the world [Thomasson] |
| 14471 | Analytical entailments arise from combinations of meanings and inference rules [Thomasson] |
| 14493 | Existence might require playing a role in explanation, or in a causal story, or being composed in some way [Thomasson] |
| 14491 | Rival ontological claims can both be true, if there are analytic relationships between them [Thomasson] |
| 14489 | Theories do not avoid commitment to entities by avoiding certain terms or concepts [Thomasson] |
| 19446 | To our consciousness it is language which looks unreal [Feuerbach] |
| 14487 | The simple existence conditions for objects are established by our practices, and are met [Thomasson] |
| 14485 | Ordinary objects may be not indispensable, but they are nearly unavoidable [Thomasson] |
| 21651 | It is analytic that if simples are arranged chair-wise, then there is a chair [Thomasson, by Hofweber] |
| 14486 | Eliminativists haven't found existence conditions for chairs, beyond those of the word 'chair' [Thomasson] |
| 14467 | Ordinary objects are rejected, to avoid contradictions, or for greater economy in thought [Thomasson] |
| 14479 | To individuate people we need conventions, but conventions are made up by people [Thomasson] |
| 14481 | Wherever an object exists, there are intrinsic properties instantiating every modal profile [Thomasson] |
| 14482 | If the statue and the lump are two objects, they require separate properties, so we could add their masses [Thomasson] |
| 14483 | Given the similarity of statue and lump, what could possibly ground their modal properties? [Thomasson] |
| 14476 | Identity claims between objects are only well-formed if the categories are specified [Thomasson] |
| 14477 | Identical entities must be of the same category, and meet the criteria for the category [Thomasson] |
| 14478 | Modal Conventionalism says modality is analytic, not intrinsic to the world, and linguistic [Thomasson] |
| 19447 | The Absolute is the 'and' which unites 'spirit and nature' [Feuerbach] |
| 14466 | A chief task of philosophy is making reflective sense of our common sense worldview [Thomasson] |
| 8101 | To know is to see inside oneself [Joubert] |
| 8094 | The imagination has made more discoveries than the eye [Joubert] |
| 8103 | A thought is as real as a cannon ball [Joubert] |
| 8100 | Where does the bird's idea of a nest come from? [Joubert] |
| 14475 | How can causal theories of reference handle nonexistence claims? [Thomasson] |
| 14474 | Pure causal theories of reference have the 'qua problem', of what sort of things is being referred to [Thomasson] |
| 14488 | Analyticity is revealed through redundancy, as in 'He bought a house and a building' [Thomasson] |
| 8096 | He gives his body up to pleasure, but not his soul [Joubert] |
| 8104 | What will you think of pleasures when you no longer enjoy them? [Joubert] |
| 8097 | Virtue is hard if we are scorned; we need support [Joubert] |
| 8106 | In raising a child we must think of his old age [Joubert] |
| 8105 | We can't exactly conceive virtue without the idea of God [Joubert] |
| 8102 | We cannot speak against Christianity without anger, or speak for it without love [Joubert] |