30 ideas
7578 | I conceived it my task to create difficulties everywhere [Kierkegaard] |
21753 | If we look at the world rationally, the world assumes a rational aspect [Hegel] |
22047 | Wherever there is painless contradiction there is also comedy [Kierkegaard] |
17651 | Without words or other symbols, we have no world [Goodman] |
21974 | The world seems rational to those who look at it rationally [Hegel] |
22092 | Kierkegaard's truth draws on authenticity, fidelity and honesty [Kierkegaard, by Carlisle] |
15999 | Pure truth is for infinite beings only; I prefer endless striving for truth [Kierkegaard] |
17652 | Truth is irrelevant if no statements are involved [Goodman] |
20313 | The highest truth we can get is uncertainty held fast by an inward passion [Kierkegaard] |
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] |
20742 | The real subject is ethical, not cognitive [Kierkegaard] |
7579 | While big metaphysics is complete without ethics, personal philosophy emphasises ethics [Kierkegaard] |
7581 | Speculative philosophy loses the individual in a vast vision of humanity [Kierkegaard] |
20314 | People want to lose themselves in movements and history, instead of being individuals [Kierkegaard] |
7582 | Becoming what one is is a huge difficulty, because we strongly aspire to be something else [Kierkegaard] |
17649 | If the world is one it has many aspects, and if there are many worlds they will collect into one [Goodman] |
7586 | God does not think or exist; God creates, and is eternal [Kierkegaard] |
20312 | God cannot be demonstrated objectively, because God is a subject, only existing inwardly [Kierkegaard] |
7580 | Pantheism destroys the distinction between good and evil [Kierkegaard] |
7584 | Without risk there is no faith [Kierkegaard] |
7583 | Faith is the highest passion in the sphere of human subjectivity [Kierkegaard] |