8 ideas
22026 | Philosophy is homesickness - the urge to be at home everywhere [Novalis] |
22153 | Quine rejects Carnap's view that science and philosophy are distinct [Quine, by Boulter] |
19485 | Names have no ontological commitment, because we can deny that they name anything [Quine] |
19486 | We can use quantification for commitment to unnameable things like the real numbers [Quine] |
579 | Cratylus said you couldn't even step into the same river once [Cratylus, by Aristotle] |
578 | Cratylus decided speech was hopeless, and his only expression was the movement of a finger [Cratylus, by Aristotle] |
19591 | Desire for perfection is an illness, if it turns against what is imperfect [Novalis] |
19487 | Without the analytic/synthetic distinction, Carnap's ontology/empirical distinction collapses [Quine] |