23 ideas
| 23531 | Philosophers should interpret the world, by expressing its possibilities [Berardi] |
| 17651 | Without words or other symbols, we have no world [Goodman] |
| 17652 | Truth is irrelevant if no statements are involved [Goodman] |
| 23538 | Nothingness only exists in consciousness [Berardi] |
| 17656 | Being primitive or prior always depends on a constructional system [Goodman] |
| 17661 | We don't recognise patterns - we invent them [Goodman] |
| 17659 | Reality is largely a matter of habit [Goodman] |
| 17657 | We build our world, and ignore anything that won't fit [Goodman] |
| 17654 | A world can be full of variety or not, depending on how we sort it [Goodman] |
| 17653 | Things can only be judged the 'same' by citing some respect of sameness [Goodman] |
| 17660 | Discovery is often just finding a fit, like a jigsaw puzzle [Goodman] |
| 17658 | Users of digital thermometers recognise no temperatures in the gaps [Goodman] |
| 17650 | We lack frames of reference to transform physics, biology and psychology into one another [Goodman] |
| 17655 | Grue and green won't be in the same world, as that would block induction entirely [Goodman] |
| 4042 | Metaphysics requires the idea of people (speakers) located in space and time [Davidson] |
| 23532 | The delusion of free will brings a sense of guilt [Berardi] |
| 4041 | Sentences held true determine the meanings of the words they contain [Davidson] |
| 23537 | American white men trusted the philosophy of winning, and then discovered losing [Berardi] |
| 23536 | Community is now a nostalgic memory, which no longer exists [Berardi] |
| 23534 | Communism failed to unite western workers with the oppressed of the south [Berardi] |
| 23533 | The economy has replaced medieval theocracy at the centre of our society [Berardi] |
| 23535 | Western workers turn to nationalism, to avert the effects of globalisation [Berardi] |
| 17649 | If the world is one it has many aspects, and if there are many worlds they will collect into one [Goodman] |