10 ideas
19086 | Does the pragmatic theory of meaning support objective truth, or make it impossible? [Macbeth] |
5637 | Nowadays logic is seen as the science of extensions, not intensions [Scruton] |
19093 | Greek mathematics is wholly sensory, where ours is wholly inferential [Macbeth] |
19091 | Seeing reality mathematically makes it an object of thought, not of experience [Macbeth] |
5636 | Cartesian 'ideas' confuse concepts and propositions [Scruton] |
19088 | For pragmatists a concept means its consequences [Macbeth] |
5121 | Basing ethics on flourishing makes it consequentialist, as actions are judged by contributing to it [Harman] |
5120 | What counts as 'flourishing' must be relative to various sets of values [Harman] |
5660 | Allegiance is prior to the recognition of individual rights [Scruton] |
5653 | A right is a power which is enforced in the name of justice [Scruton] |