9 ideas
23881 | All thought about values is philosophical, and thought about anything else is not philosophy [Weil] |
23885 | Philosophy aims to change the soul, not to accumulate knowledge [Weil] |
21829 | Philosophy aims to understand how things (broadly understood) hang together (broadly understood) [Sellars] |
23886 | Systems are not unique to each philosopher. The platonist tradition is old and continuous [Weil] |
6564 | To affirm 'p and not-p' is to have mislearned 'and' or 'not' [Quine] |
23884 | Truth is a value of thought [Weil] |
6550 | Reduction requires that an object's properties consist of its constituents' properties and relations [Sellars] |
23882 | Ends, unlike means, cannot be defined, which is why people tend to pursue means [Weil] |
23883 | Minds essentially and always strive towards value [Weil] |