25 ideas
7973 | There is no longer anything on which there is nothing to say [Baudrillard] |
7975 | The task of philosophy is to unmask the illusion of objective reality [Baudrillard] |
7986 | Drunken boat pilots are less likely to collide than clearly focused ones [Baudrillard] |
7982 | Instead of thesis and antithesis leading to synthesis, they now cancel out, and the conflict is levelled [Baudrillard] |
7548 | Classes, grouped by a convenient property, are logical constructions [Russell] |
7974 | Without God we faced reality: what do we face without reality? [Baudrillard] |
7545 | Visible things are physical and external, but only exist when viewed [Russell] |
7987 | Nothing is true, but everything is exact [Baudrillard] |
3016 | Even the gods cannot strive against necessity [Pittacus, by Diog. Laertius] |
7553 | Sense-data are purely physical [Russell] |
7549 | If my body literally lost its mind, the object seen when I see a flash would still exist [Russell] |
7546 | A man is a succession of momentary men, bound by continuity and causation [Russell] |
7978 | There is no need to involve the idea of free will to make choices about one's life [Baudrillard] |
7550 | We could probably, in principle, infer minds from brains, and brains from minds [Russell] |
7980 | In modern times, being useless is the essential aesthetic ingredient for an object [Baudrillard] |
7983 | Good versus evil has been banefully reduced to happiness versus misfortune [Baudrillard] |
7981 | Whole populations are terrorist threats to authorities, who unite against them [Baudrillard] |
7976 | People like democracy because it means they can avoid power [Baudrillard] |
7977 | Only in the last 200 years have people demanded the democratic privilege of being individuals [Baudrillard] |
7979 | The arrival of the news media brought history to an end [Baudrillard] |
7984 | Suicide is ascribed to depression, with the originality of the act of will ignored [Baudrillard] |
7551 | Matter is a logical construction [Russell] |
7547 | Matter requires a division into time-corpuscles as well as space-corpuscles [Russell] |
7552 | Six dimensions are needed for a particular, three within its own space, and three to locate that space [Russell] |
7985 | Pascal says secular life is acceptable, but more fun with the hypothesis of God [Baudrillard] |