19 ideas
18274 | Analysis complicates a statement, but only as far as the complexity of its meaning [Wittgenstein] |
4187 | 'There is nothing without a reason why it should be rather than not be' (a generalisation of 'Why?') [Schopenhauer] |
16908 | We can dispense with self-evidence, if language itself prevents logical mistakes [Jeshion on Wittgenstein] |
18276 | A statement's logical form derives entirely from its constituents [Wittgenstein] |
6563 | 'And' and 'not' are non-referring terms, which do not represent anything [Wittgenstein, by Fogelin] |
23472 | The sense of propositions relies on the world's basic logical structure [Wittgenstein] |
4192 | All necessity arises from causation, which is conditioned; there is no absolute or unconditioned necessity [Schopenhauer] |
4190 | All understanding is an immediate apprehension of the causal relation [Schopenhauer] |
23500 | My main problem is the order of the world, and whether it is knowable a priori [Wittgenstein] |
3488 | Freud treats the unconscious as intentional and hence mental [Freud, by Searle] |
22323 | The philosophical I is the metaphysical subject, the limit - not a part of the world [Wittgenstein] |
4191 | What we know in ourselves is not a knower but a will [Schopenhauer] |
5689 | Freud and others have shown that we don't know our own beliefs, feelings, motive and attitudes [Freud, by Shoemaker] |
21368 | The knot of the world is the use of 'I' to refer to both willing and knowing [Schopenhauer] |
23950 | Freud said passions are pressures of some flowing hydraulic quantity [Freud, by Solomon] |
23481 | Propositions assemble a world experimentally, like the model of a road accident [Wittgenstein] |
22344 | Freud is pessimistic about human nature; it is ambivalent motive and fantasy, rather than reason [Freud, by Murdoch] |
4678 | Absolute prohibitions are the essence of ethics, and suicide is the most obvious example [Wittgenstein] |
4189 | Time may be defined as the possibility of mutually exclusive conditions of the same thing [Schopenhauer] |