23 ideas
20320 | Truth is what unites, and the profound truths create a community [Jaspers] |
8195 | Undecidable statements result from quantifying over infinites, subjunctive conditionals, and the past tense [Dummett] |
8194 | Surely there is no exact single grain that brings a heap into existence [Dummett] |
8190 | Intuitionists rely on the proof of mathematical statements, not their truth [Dummett] |
8198 | A 'Cambridge Change' is like saying 'the landscape changes as you travel east' [Dummett] |
8192 | I no longer think what a statement about the past says is just what can justify it [Dummett] |
8199 | The existence of a universe without sentience or intelligence is an unintelligible fantasy [Dummett] |
9382 | Subjects may be unaware of their epistemic 'entitlements', unlike their 'justifications' [Burge] |
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] |
8193 | Verification is not an individual but a collective activity [Dummett] |
8189 | Truth-condition theorists must argue use can only be described by appeal to conditions of truth [Dummett] |
8191 | The truth-conditions theory must get agreement on a conception of truth [Dummett] |
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] |
20319 | We want the correct grasp on being that is neither solipsism nor absorption in the crowd [Jaspers] |
20315 | 'Existenz' is the potential being, which I could have, and ought to have [Jaspers] |
20316 | Every decision I make moves towards or away from fulfilled Existenz [Jaspers] |
8197 | Maybe past (which affects us) and future (which we can affect) are both real [Dummett] |
8196 | The present cannot exist alone as a mere boundary; past and future truths are rendered meaningless [Dummett] |