9 ideas
20947 | Thoughts are learnt through words, so language shows the limits and shape of our knowledge [Herder] |
21960 | Ordinary language is the beginning of philosophy, but there is much more to it [Austin,JL] |
10835 | True sentences says the appropriate descriptive thing on the appropriate demonstrative occasion [Austin,JL] |
10836 | Correspondence theorists shouldn't think that a country has just one accurate map [Austin,JL] |
21598 | Austin revealed many meanings for 'vague': rough, ambiguous, general, incomplete... [Austin,JL, by Williamson] |
20949 | Study the use of words, not their origins [Herder] |
7669 | We cannot attain all the ideals of every culture, so there cannot be a perfect life [Herder, by Berlin] |
3031 | The greatest good is not the achievement of desire, but to desire what is proper [Menedemus, by Diog. Laertius] |
7668 | Herder invented the idea of being rooted in (or cut off from) a home or a group [Herder, by Berlin] |