13 ideas
7085 | The main problem of philosophy is what can and cannot be thought and expressed [Wittgenstein, by Grayling] |
6211 | Laughter is a sudden glory in realising the infirmity of others, or our own formerly [Hobbes] |
23463 | Atomic facts correspond to true elementary propositions [Wittgenstein] |
9295 | Not only substances have attributes; events, actions, states and qualities can have them [Teichmann] |
6213 | A man cannot will to will, or will to will to will, so the idea of a voluntary will is absurd [Hobbes] |
9293 | Body-spirit interaction ought to result in losses and increases of energy in the material world [Teichmann] |
6208 | Conceptions and apparitions are just motion in some internal substance of the head [Hobbes] |
23490 | A thought is mental constituents that relate to reality as words do [Wittgenstein] |
6209 | There is no absolute good, for even the goodness of God is goodness to us [Hobbes] |
6210 | Life has no end (not even happiness), because we have desires, which presuppose a further end [Hobbes] |
6212 | Lust involves pleasure, and also the sense of power in pleasing others [Hobbes] |
9292 | The Soul has no particular capacity (in the way thinking belongs to the mind) [Teichmann] |
9294 | No individuating marks distinguish between Souls [Teichmann] |