9 ideas
22026 | Philosophy is homesickness - the urge to be at home everywhere [Novalis] |
21552 | Common speech is vague; its vocabulary and syntax must be modified, for precision [Russell] |
21551 | Empirical words need ostensive definition, which makes them egocentric [Russell] |
3488 | Freud treats the unconscious as intentional and hence mental [Freud, by Searle] |
19591 | Desire for perfection is an illness, if it turns against what is imperfect [Novalis] |
5689 | Freud and others have shown that we don't know our own beliefs, feelings, motive and attitudes [Freud, by Shoemaker] |
23950 | Freud said passions are pressures of some flowing hydraulic quantity [Freud, by Solomon] |
21550 | Science reduces indexicals to a minimum, but they can never be eliminated from empirical matters [Russell] |
22344 | Freud is pessimistic about human nature; it is ambivalent motive and fantasy, rather than reason [Freud, by Murdoch] |