12 ideas
20744 | Phenomenologists say all experience is about something and is directed [Aho] |
594 | Speusippus suggested underlying principles for every substance, and ended with a huge list [Speussipus, by Aristotle] |
22137 | Observation can force rejection of some part of the initial set of claims [Duhem, by Boulter] |
20736 | Science has to abstract out the subjective attributes of things, focusing on what is objective [Aho] |
18197 | Experiments only test groups of hypotheses, and can't show which one is wrong [Duhem] |
20734 | Anxiety, nausea, guilt and absurdity shake us up, revealing our freedom and limits [Aho] |
20733 | Our 'existence' is how we create ourselves, unconstrained by any prior 'essence' [Aho] |
20753 | The self is constituted by its choices made within a social context [Aho] |
20738 | Social contracts and markets have made society seem disconnected and artificial [Aho] |
2632 | Speusippus said things were governed by some animal force rather than the gods [Speussipus, by Cicero] |
20737 | Protestantism brought the modern emphasis on inner states of the soul [Aho] |
20766 | Four Noble Truths: life is suffering, caused by attachment, it is avoidable, there is a path [Aho] |