17 ideas
22070 | Irony is consciousness of abundant chaos [Schlegel,F] |
22069 | Plato has no system. Philosophy is the progression of a mind and development of thoughts [Schlegel,F] |
22438 | Philosophy is largely concerned with finding the minimum that science could get by with [Quine] |
22436 | Logicians don't paraphrase logic into language, because they think in the symbolic language [Quine] |
22431 | Good algorithms and theories need many occurrences of just a few elements [Quine] |
22435 | The logician's '→' does not mean the English if-then [Quine] |
22433 | It is important that the quantification over temporal entities is timeless [Quine] |
22437 | Logical languages are rooted in ordinary language, and that connection must be kept [Quine] |
22434 | Reduction to logical forms first simplifies idioms and grammar, then finds a single reading of it [Quine] |
22432 | Normally conditionals have no truth value; it is the consequent which has a conditional truth value [Quine] |
22068 | Poetry is transcendental when it connects the ideal to the real [Schlegel,F] |
4871 | A thing is free if it acts only by the necessity of its own nature [Spinoza] |
22430 | If we understand a statement, we know the circumstances of its truth [Quine] |
22030 | For poets free choice is supreme [Schlegel,F] |
22071 | True love is ironic, in the contrast between finite limitations and the infinity of love [Schlegel,F] |
22029 | Irony is the response to conflicts of involvement and attachment [Schlegel,F, by Pinkard] |
13713 | Quine holds time to be 'space-like': past objects are as real as spatially remote ones [Quine, by Sider] |