10 ideas
15038 | Structuralism systematically abstracted the event from sciences, and even from history [Foucault] |
15044 | 'Truth' is the procedures for controlling which statements are acceptable [Foucault] |
15042 | Truth doesn't arise from solitary freedom, but from societies with constraints [Foucault] |
16458 | Semantic vagueness involves alternative and equal precisifications of the language [Lewis] |
15037 | Why does knowledge appear in sudden bursts, and not in a smooth continuous development? [Foucault] |
15043 | Every society has a politics of truth, concerning its values, functions, prestige and mechanisms [Foucault] |
15040 | Marxists denounced power as class domination, but never analysed its mechanics [Foucault] |
15041 | Power doesn't just repress, but entices us with pleasure, artefacts, knowledge and discourse [Foucault] |
15039 | History lacks 'meaning', but it can be analysed in terms of its struggles [Foucault] |
3535 | All observable causes are merely epiphenomena [Kim] |