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Single Idea 1645
[filed under theme 1. Philosophy / F. Analytic Philosophy / 7. Limitations of Analysis
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Full Idea
To try to set apart everything from everything is not only especially jangling, but it is the mark of someone altogether unmusical and unphilosophic.
Gist of Idea
The desire to split everything into its parts is unpleasant and unphilosophical
Source
Plato (The Sophist [c.359 BCE], 259e)
Book Ref
Plato: 'The Sophist', ed/tr. Bernadete,Seth [University of Chicago 1986], p.57
The
19 ideas
with the same theme
[why analysis is trivial, limited or hopeless]:
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1645
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The desire to split everything into its parts is unpleasant and unphilosophical
[Plato]
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22
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Trained minds never expect more precision than is possible
[Aristotle]
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14165
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Analysis falsifies, if when the parts are broken down they are not equivalent to their sum
[Russell]
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18714
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We already know what we want to know, and analysis gives us no new facts
[Wittgenstein]
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23499
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This book says we should either say it clearly, or shut up
[Wittgenstein]
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5195
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Critics say analysis can only show the parts, and not their distinctive configuration
[Ayer]
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21839
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When I meet objections I just move on; they never contribute anything
[Deleuze]
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17663
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If you know what it is, investigation is pointless. If you don't, investigation is impossible
[Armstrong]
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2557
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Analytical philosophy seems to have little interest in how to tell a good analysis from a bad one
[Rorty]
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2481
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Despite all the efforts of philosophers, nothing can ever be reduced to anything
[Fodor]
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17082
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Paradox: why do you analyse if you know it, and how do you analyse if you don't?
[Ruben]
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2958
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No one has ever succeeded in producing an acceptable non-trivial analysis of anything
[Lockwood]
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3352
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Analytical philosophy analyses separate concepts successfully, but lacks a synoptic vision of the results
[Benardete,JA]
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9978
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Analytic philosophy focuses too much on forms of expression, instead of what is actually said
[Tait]
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6881
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Analytic philosophy studies the unimportant, and sharpens tools instead of using them
[Mautner]
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10571
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Concern for rigour can get in the way of understanding phenomena
[Fine,K]
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9297
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You can't understand love in terms of 'if and only if...'
[Svendsen]
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9136
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The paradox of analysis says that any conceptual analysis must be either trivial or false
[Sorensen]
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11147
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Naturalistic philosophers oppose analysis, preferring explanation to a priori intuition
[Margolis/Laurence]
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