19 ideas
19579 | The history of philosophy is just experiments in how to do philosophy [Novalis] |
19583 | Philosophy only begins when it studies itself [Novalis] |
8868 | Objective truth arises from interpersonal communication [Davidson] |
19581 | A problem is a solid mass, which the mind must break up [Novalis] |
19584 | Whoever first counted to two must have seen the possibility of infinite counting [Novalis] |
22025 | Novalis thought self-consciousness cannot disclose 'being', because we are temporal creatures [Novalis, by Pinkard] |
8867 | A belief requires understanding the distinctions of true-and-false, and appearance-and-reality [Davidson] |
22067 | Poetry is true idealism, and the self-consciousness of the universe [Novalis] |
10347 | Objectivity is intersubjectivity [Davidson] |
8866 | If we know other minds through behaviour, but not our own, we should assume they aren't like me [Davidson] |
10346 | Knowing other minds rests on knowing both one's own mind and the external world [Davidson, by Dummett] |
19585 | Every person has his own language [Novalis] |
8870 | Content of thought is established through communication, so knowledge needs other minds [Davidson] |
8869 | The principle of charity attributes largely consistent logic and largely true beliefs to speakers [Davidson] |
19582 | Morality and philosophy are mutually dependent [Novalis] |
22027 | Life isn't given to us like a novel - we write the novel [Novalis] |
13304 | Learned men gain more in one day than others do in a lifetime [Posidonius] |
19580 | If the pupil really yearns for the truth, they only need a hint [Novalis] |
20820 | Time is an interval of motion, or the measure of speed [Posidonius, by Stobaeus] |