19 ideas
| 7426 | Critical philosophy is what questions domination at every level [Foucault] |
| 7423 | Philosophy and politics are fundamentally linked [Foucault] |
| 7420 | When logos controls our desires, we have actually become the logos [Foucault] |
| 12797 | If plural variables have 'some values', then non-count variables have 'some value' [Laycock] |
| 12794 | Plurals are semantical but not ontological [Laycock] |
| 17694 | Some non-count nouns can be used for counting, as in 'several wines' or 'fewer cheeses' [Laycock] |
| 17695 | Some apparent non-count words can take plural forms, such as 'snows' or 'waters' [Laycock] |
| 12792 | The category of stuff does not suit reference [Laycock] |
| 12799 | Descriptions of stuff are neither singular aggregates nor plural collections [Laycock] |
| 12818 | We shouldn't think some water retains its identity when it is mixed with air [Laycock] |
| 12795 | Parts must be of the same very general type as the wholes [Laycock] |
| 7424 | Saying games of truth were merely power relations would be a horrible exaggeration [Foucault] |
| 17696 | 'Humility is a virtue' has an abstract noun, but 'water is a liquid' has a generic concrete noun [Laycock] |
| 7422 | A subject is a form which can change, in (say) political or sexual situations [Foucault] |
| 12791 | It is said that proper reference is our intellectual link with the world [Laycock] |
| 7419 | Ethics is the conscious practice of freedom [Foucault] |
| 20239 | Unlike us, the early Greeks thought envy was a good thing, and hope a bad thing [Hesiod, by Nietzsche] |
| 7425 | The aim is not to eliminate power relations, but to reduce domination [Foucault] |
| 7418 | The idea of liberation suggests there is a human nature which has been repressed [Foucault] |