37 ideas
7426 | Critical philosophy is what questions domination at every level [Foucault] |
12124 | Metaphysics is the best knowledge, because it is the simplest [Bacon] |
12123 | Natural history supports physical knowledge, which supports metaphysical knowledge [Bacon] |
12119 | Physics studies transitory matter; metaphysics what is abstracted and necessary [Bacon] |
12120 | Physics is of material and efficient causes, metaphysics of formal and final causes [Bacon] |
16943 | Philosophy is continuous with science, and has no external vantage point [Quine] |
7423 | Philosophy and politics are fundamentally linked [Foucault] |
7420 | When logos controls our desires, we have actually become the logos [Foucault] |
16949 | Klein summarised geometry as grouped together by transformations [Quine] |
16939 | Mass terms just concern spread, but other terms involve both spread and individuation [Quine] |
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] |
12121 | We don't assume there is no land, because we can only see sea [Bacon] |
7424 | Saying games of truth were merely power relations would be a horrible exaggeration [Foucault] |
12117 | Science moves up and down between inventions of causes, and experiments [Bacon] |
16944 | Science is common sense, with a sophisticated method [Quine] |
12127 | Many different theories will fit the observed facts [Bacon] |
16940 | Induction is just more of the same: animal expectations [Quine] |
16941 | Induction relies on similar effects following from each cause [Quine] |
16933 | Grue is a puzzle because the notions of similarity and kind are dubious in science [Quine] |
12126 | People love (unfortunately) extreme generality, rather than particular knowledge [Bacon] |
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] |
8486 | Standards of similarity are innate, and the spacing of qualities such as colours can be mapped [Quine] |
16947 | Similarity is just interchangeability in the cosmic machine [Quine] |
7422 | A subject is a form which can change, in (say) political or sexual situations [Foucault] |
16932 | Projectible predicates can be universalised about the kind to which they refer [Quine] |
7419 | Ethics is the conscious practice of freedom [Foucault] |
7425 | The aim is not to eliminate power relations, but to reduce domination [Foucault] |
7418 | The idea of liberation suggests there is a human nature which has been repressed [Foucault] |
12125 | Teleological accounts are fine in metaphysics, but they stop us from searching for the causes [Bacon] |
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] |
12118 | Essences are part of first philosophy, but as part of nature, not part of logic [Bacon] |