21 ideas
9307 | Modern Western culture suddenly appeared in Jena in the 1790s [Svendsen] |
18274 | Analysis complicates a statement, but only as far as the complexity of its meaning [Wittgenstein] |
9297 | You can't understand love in terms of 'if and only if...' [Svendsen] |
16908 | We can dispense with self-evidence, if language itself prevents logical mistakes [Jeshion on Wittgenstein] |
18276 | A statement's logical form derives entirely from its constituents [Wittgenstein] |
6563 | 'And' and 'not' are non-referring terms, which do not represent anything [Wittgenstein, by Fogelin] |
23472 | The sense of propositions relies on the world's basic logical structure [Wittgenstein] |
23500 | My main problem is the order of the world, and whether it is knowable a priori [Wittgenstein] |
9308 | If subjective and objective begin to merge, then so do primary and secondary qualities [Svendsen] |
22323 | The philosophical I is the metaphysical subject, the limit - not a part of the world [Wittgenstein] |
9309 | Emotions have intentional objects, while a mood is objectless [Svendsen] |
23481 | Propositions assemble a world experimentally, like the model of a road accident [Wittgenstein] |
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] |
9311 | We have achieved a sort of utopia, and it is boring, so that is the end of utopias [Svendsen] |
9303 | The concept of 'alienation' seems no longer applicable [Svendsen] |
4678 | Absolute prohibitions are the essence of ethics, and suicide is the most obvious example [Wittgenstein] |
13097 | Force in substance makes state follow state, and ensures the very existence of substance [Leibniz] |