21 ideas
5300 | Philosophers have interpreted the world, but the point is to change it [Marx] |
9593 | Progress in philosophy is incremental, not an immature seeking after drama [Williamson] |
5297 | Whether human thinking can be 'true' must be decided in practice, not theory [Marx] |
9594 | Correspondence to the facts is a bad account of analytic truth [Williamson] |
21222 | Logicians presuppose a world, and ignore logic/world connections, so their logic is impure [Husserl, by Velarde-Mayol] |
21223 | Phenomenology grounds logic in subjective experience [Husserl, by Velarde-Mayol] |
21224 | Pure mathematics is the relations between all possible objects, and is thus formal ontology [Husserl, by Velarde-Mayol] |
9601 | The realist/anti-realist debate is notoriously obscure and fruitless [Williamson] |
9599 | There cannot be vague objects, so there may be no such thing as a mountain [Williamson] |
9602 | Common sense and classical logic are often simultaneously abandoned in debates on vagueness [Williamson] |
9598 | Modal thinking isn't a special intuition; it is part of ordinary counterfactual thinking [Williamson] |
16536 | Williamson can't base metaphysical necessity on the psychology of causal counterfactuals [Lowe on Williamson] |
9596 | We scorn imagination as a test of possibility, forgetting its role in counterfactuals [Williamson] |
9597 | There are 'armchair' truths which are not a priori, because experience was involved [Williamson] |
9592 | Intuition is neither powerful nor vacuous, but reveals linguistic or conceptual competence [Williamson] |
20181 | When analytic philosophers run out of arguments, they present intuitions as their evidence [Williamson] |
22598 | The authentic self exists at the level of class, rather than the individual [Marx, by Dunt] |
9595 | You might know that the word 'gob' meant 'mouth', but not be competent to use it [Williamson] |
5298 | The human essence is not found in individuals but in social relations [Marx] |
9600 | If languages are intertranslatable, and cognition is innate, then cultures are all similar [Williamson] |
5299 | Religious feeling is social in origin [Marx] |