22 ideas
7662 | Romanticism is the greatest change in the consciousness of the West [Berlin] |
9593 | Progress in philosophy is incremental, not an immature seeking after drama [Williamson] |
6602 | Philosophy is like a statue which is worshipped but never advances [Bacon] |
9594 | Correspondence to the facts is a bad account of analytic truth [Williamson] |
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] |
16724 | The senses deceive, but also show their own errors [Bacon] |
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] |
6603 | Nature is revealed when we put it under pressure rather than observe it [Bacon] |
9595 | You might know that the word 'gob' meant 'mouth', but not be competent to use it [Williamson] |
7665 | Most Enlightenment thinkers believed that virtue consists ultimately in knowledge [Berlin] |
7676 | If we are essentially free wills, authenticity and sincerity are the highest virtues [Berlin] |
7664 | The Greeks have no notion of obligation or duty [Berlin] |
7677 | Central to existentialism is the romantic idea that there is nothing to lean on [Berlin] |
9600 | If languages are intertranslatable, and cognition is innate, then cultures are all similar [Williamson] |
7663 | Judaism and Christianity views are based on paternal, family and tribal relations [Berlin] |