41 ideas
| 23064 | So-called wisdom is just pondering things instead of acting [Cioran] |
| 23072 | Systems are the worst despotism, in philosophy and in life [Cioran] |
| 16943 | Philosophy is continuous with science, and has no external vantage point [Quine] |
| 23075 | A text explained ceases to be a text [Cioran] |
| 23066 | Negation doesn't arise from reasoning, but from deep instincts [Cioran] |
| 16949 | Klein summarised geometry as grouped together by transformations [Quine] |
| 23077 | The word 'being' is very tempting, but in fact means nothing at all [Cioran] |
| 16939 | Mass terms just concern spread, but other terms involve both spread and individuation [Quine] |
| 23068 | People who really believe anti-realism don't bother to prove it [Cioran] |
| 16948 | Once we know the mechanism of a disposition, we can eliminate 'similarity' [Quine] |
| 16945 | We judge things to be soluble if they are the same kind as, or similar to, things that do dissolve [Quine] |
| 23073 | Convictions are failures to study anything thoroughly [Cioran] |
| 23078 | Opinions are fine, but having convictions means something has gone wrong [Cioran] |
| 16944 | Science is common sense, with a sophisticated method [Quine] |
| 16941 | Induction relies on similar effects following from each cause [Quine] |
| 16940 | Induction is just more of the same: animal expectations [Quine] |
| 16933 | Grue is a puzzle because the notions of similarity and kind are dubious in science [Quine] |
| 16934 | General terms depend on similarities among things [Quine] |
| 16938 | To learn yellow by observation, must we be told to look at the colour? [Quine] |
| 16947 | Similarity is just interchangeability in the cosmic machine [Quine] |
| 8486 | Standards of similarity are innate, and the spacing of qualities such as colours can be mapped [Quine] |
| 23076 | If people always acted without words we would take them for robots [Cioran] |
| 23065 | If only we could write like a reptile, of endless sensations and no concepts! [Cioran] |
| 16932 | Projectible predicates can be universalised about the kind to which they refer [Quine] |
| 23071 | We could only be responsible if we had consented before birth to who we are [Cioran] |
| 23070 | We morally dissolve if we spend time with excessive beauty [Cioran] |
| 20180 | A happy and joyous life must largely be a quiet life [Russell] |
| 23074 | In anxiety people cling to what reinforces it, because it is a deep need [Cioran] |
| 20177 | Boredom always involves not being fully occupied [Russell] |
| 23069 | Fear cures boredom, because it is stronger [Cioran] |
| 20179 | Happiness involves enduring boredom, and the young should be taught this [Russell] |
| 20178 | Life is now more interesting, but boredom is more frightening [Russell] |
| 23062 | It is better to watch the hours pass, than trying to fill them [Cioran] |
| 20176 | Boredom is an increasingly strong motivating power [Russell] |
| 23067 | Suicide is pointless, because it always comes too late [Cioran] |
| 7375 | Quine probably regrets natural kinds now being treated as essences [Quine, by Dennett] |
| 16935 | If similarity has no degrees, kinds cannot be contained within one another [Quine] |
| 16936 | Comparative similarity allows the kind 'colored' to contain the kind 'red' [Quine] |
| 16937 | You can't base kinds just on resemblance, because chains of resemblance are a muddle [Quine] |
| 16942 | It is hard to see how regularities could be explained [Quine] |
| 23063 | The first man obviously found paradise unendurable [Cioran] |