8 ideas
22026 | Philosophy is homesickness - the urge to be at home everywhere [Novalis] |
13407 | All worthwhile philosophy is synthetic theorizing, evaluated by experience [Papineau] |
13409 | Our best theories may commit us to mathematical abstracta, but that doesn't justify the commitment [Papineau] |
13406 | A priori knowledge is analytic - the structure of our concepts - and hence unimportant [Papineau] |
13408 | Intuition and thought-experiments embody substantial information about the world [Papineau] |
19591 | Desire for perfection is an illness, if it turns against what is imperfect [Novalis] |
22235 | Feelings are not unchanging, but have a history (especially if they are noble) [Foucault] |
13410 | Verificationism about concepts means you can't deny a theory, because you can't have the concept [Papineau] |