22 ideas
9593 | Progress in philosophy is incremental, not an immature seeking after drama [Williamson] |
19574 | If man sacrifices truth he sacrifices himself, by acting against his own convictions [Novalis] |
9594 | Correspondence to the facts is a bad account of analytic truth [Williamson] |
19571 | Delusion and truth differ in their life functions [Novalis] |
9601 | The realist/anti-realist debate is notoriously obscure and fruitless [Williamson] |
9599 | There cannot be vague objects, so there may be no such thing as a mountain [Williamson] |
9602 | Common sense and classical logic are often simultaneously abandoned in debates on vagueness [Williamson] |
19575 | Refinement of senses increasingly distinguishes individuals [Novalis] |
9598 | Modal thinking isn't a special intuition; it is part of ordinary counterfactual thinking [Williamson] |
16536 | Williamson can't base metaphysical necessity on the psychology of causal counterfactuals [Lowe on Williamson] |
9596 | We scorn imagination as a test of possibility, forgetting its role in counterfactuals [Williamson] |
9597 | There are 'armchair' truths which are not a priori, because experience was involved [Williamson] |
19572 | Experiences tests reason, and reason tests experience [Novalis] |
9592 | Intuition is neither powerful nor vacuous, but reveals linguistic or conceptual competence [Williamson] |
20181 | When analytic philosophers run out of arguments, they present intuitions as their evidence [Williamson] |
19573 | The seat of the soul is where our inner and outer worlds interpenetrate [Novalis] |
19577 | Everything is a chaotic unity, then we abstract, then we reunify the world into a free alliance [Novalis] |
9595 | You might know that the word 'gob' meant 'mouth', but not be competent to use it [Williamson] |
19578 | Only self-illuminated perfect individuals are beautiful [Novalis] |
19941 | Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself [Anon (Leviticus)] |
9600 | If languages are intertranslatable, and cognition is innate, then cultures are all similar [Williamson] |
19576 | Religion needs an intermediary, because none of us can connect directly to a godhead [Novalis] |