7 ideas
13007 | Archimedes defined a straight line as the shortest distance between two points [Archimedes, by Leibniz] |
6900 | A prior understanding of beauty is needed to assert that the Form of the Beautiful is beautiful [Westaway] |
6956 | At what point does an object become 'whole'? [Westaway] |
7335 | The Chinese Room should be able to ask itself questions in Mandarin [Westaway] |
12167 | Reference without predication is the characteristic of expression [Scruton] |
12166 | If music refers to love, it contains no predication, so it is expression, not language [Scruton] |
12168 | Music is not representational, since thoughts about a subject are never essential to it [Scruton] |