15 ideas
19441 | All philosophies presuppose their historical moment, and arise from it [Feuerbach] |
13966 | Analytic philosophy loved the necessary a priori analytic, linguistic modality, and rigour [Soames] |
19442 | I don't study Plato for his own sake; the primary aim is always understanding [Feuerbach] |
13974 | If philosophy is analysis of meaning, available to all competent speakers, what's left for philosophers? [Soames] |
19445 | A dialectician has to be his own opponent [Feuerbach] |
19444 | Each proposition has an antithesis, and truth exists as its refutation [Feuerbach] |
19443 | Truth forges an impersonal unity between people [Feuerbach] |
19446 | To our consciousness it is language which looks unreal [Feuerbach] |
13969 | Kripkean essential properties and relations are necessary, in all genuinely possible worlds [Soames] |
13973 | A key achievement of Kripke is showing that important modalities are not linguistic in source [Soames] |
13968 | Kripkean possible worlds are abstract maximal states in which the real world could have been [Soames] |
19447 | The Absolute is the 'and' which unites 'spirit and nature' [Feuerbach] |
13972 | Two-dimensionalism reinstates descriptivism, and reconnects necessity and apriority to analyticity [Soames] |
1748 | Archelaus was the first person to say that the universe is boundless [Archelaus, by Diog. Laertius] |
5989 | Archelaus said life began in a primeval slime [Archelaus, by Schofield] |