23 ideas
9307 | Modern Western culture suddenly appeared in Jena in the 1790s [Svendsen] |
5300 | Philosophers have interpreted the world, but the point is to change it [Marx] |
9297 | You can't understand love in terms of 'if and only if...' [Svendsen] |
5297 | Whether human thinking can be 'true' must be decided in practice, not theory [Marx] |
9331 | How do we determine which of the sentences containing a term comprise its definition? [Horwich] |
9333 | A priori belief is not necessarily a priori justification, or a priori knowledge [Horwich] |
9342 | Understanding needs a priori commitment [Horwich] |
9332 | Meaning is generated by a priori commitment to truth, not the other way around [Horwich] |
9341 | Meanings and concepts cannot give a priori knowledge, because they may be unacceptable [Horwich] |
9334 | If we stipulate the meaning of 'number' to make Hume's Principle true, we first need Hume's Principle [Horwich] |
9339 | A priori knowledge (e.g. classical logic) may derive from the innate structure of our minds [Horwich] |
9308 | If subjective and objective begin to merge, then so do primary and secondary qualities [Svendsen] |
22598 | The authentic self exists at the level of class, rather than the individual [Marx, by Dunt] |
9309 | Emotions have intentional objects, while a mood is objectless [Svendsen] |
5298 | The human essence is not found in individuals but in social relations [Marx] |
9304 | Death appears to be more frightening the less one has lived [Svendsen] |
9310 | The profoundest boredom is boredom with boredom [Svendsen] |
9302 | We are bored because everything comes to us fully encoded, and we want personal meaning [Svendsen] |
9301 | Boredom is so radical that suicide could not overcome it; only never having existed would do it [Svendsen] |
9298 | We can be unaware that we are bored [Svendsen] |
9311 | We have achieved a sort of utopia, and it is boring, so that is the end of utopias [Svendsen] |
9303 | The concept of 'alienation' seems no longer applicable [Svendsen] |
5299 | Religious feeling is social in origin [Marx] |