20 ideas
| 7426 | Critical philosophy is what questions domination at every level [Foucault] |
| 18274 | Analysis complicates a statement, but only as far as the complexity of its meaning [Wittgenstein] |
| 7423 | Philosophy and politics are fundamentally linked [Foucault] |
| 7420 | When logos controls our desires, we have actually become the logos [Foucault] |
| 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] |
| 7424 | Saying games of truth were merely power relations would be a horrible exaggeration [Foucault] |
| 22323 | The philosophical I is the metaphysical subject, the limit - not a part of the world [Wittgenstein] |
| 7422 | A subject is a form which can change, in (say) political or sexual situations [Foucault] |
| 23481 | Propositions assemble a world experimentally, like the model of a road accident [Wittgenstein] |
| 7419 | Ethics is the conscious practice of freedom [Foucault] |
| 7425 | The aim is not to eliminate power relations, but to reduce domination [Foucault] |
| 7418 | The idea of liberation suggests there is a human nature which has been repressed [Foucault] |
| 4678 | Absolute prohibitions are the essence of ethics, and suicide is the most obvious example [Wittgenstein] |
| 17371 | Some kinds are very explanatory, but others less so, and some not at all [Devitt] |
| 17373 | Species pluralism says there are several good accounts of what a species is [Devitt] |
| 17372 | The higher categories are not natural kinds, so the Linnaean hierarchy should be given up [Devitt] |