22 ideas
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] |
24016 | Consciousness always transcends itself [Sartre] |
24013 | An emotion and its object form a unity, so emotion is a mode of apprehension [Sartre] |
24017 | Emotion is one of our modes of understanding our Being-in-the-World [Sartre] |
24014 | Emotions are a sort of bodily incantation which brings a magic to the world [Sartre] |
24015 | Emotions makes us believe in and live in a new world [Sartre] |
9595 | You might know that the word 'gob' meant 'mouth', but not be competent to use it [Williamson] |
20491 | States have a monopoly of legitimate violence [Sartre, by Wolff,J] |
9600 | If languages are intertranslatable, and cognition is innate, then cultures are all similar [Williamson] |