23 ideas
3798 | An overexamined life is as bad as an unexamined one [Dennett] |
18274 | Analysis complicates a statement, but only as far as the complexity of its meaning [Wittgenstein] |
3801 | Rationality requires the assumption that things are either for better or worse [Dennett] |
16908 | We can dispense with self-evidence, if language itself prevents logical mistakes [Jeshion on Wittgenstein] |
11211 | If a sound conclusion comes from two errors that cancel out, the path of the argument must matter [Rumfitt] |
18276 | A statement's logical form derives entirely from its constituents [Wittgenstein] |
6563 | 'And' and 'not' are non-referring terms, which do not represent anything [Wittgenstein, by Fogelin] |
11212 | The sense of a connective comes from primitively obvious rules of inference [Rumfitt] |
11210 | Standardly 'and' and 'but' are held to have the same sense by having the same truth table [Rumfitt] |
23472 | The sense of propositions relies on the world's basic logical structure [Wittgenstein] |
3802 | Why pronounce impossible what you cannot imagine? [Dennett] |
23500 | My main problem is the order of the world, and whether it is knowable a priori [Wittgenstein] |
3795 | Causal theories require the "right" sort of link (usually unspecified) [Dennett] |
3797 | I am the sum total of what I directly control [Dennett] |
22323 | The philosophical I is the metaphysical subject, the limit - not a part of the world [Wittgenstein] |
3800 | You can be free even though force would have prevented you doing otherwise [Dennett, by PG] |
3803 | Can we conceive of a being with a will freer than our own? [Dennett] |
3791 | Awareness of thought is a step beyond awareness of the world [Dennett] |
3794 | Foreknowledge permits control [Dennett] |
3796 | The active self is a fiction created because we are ignorant of our motivations [Dennett] |
23481 | Propositions assemble a world experimentally, like the model of a road accident [Wittgenstein] |
11214 | We learn 'not' along with affirmation, by learning to either affirm or deny a sentence [Rumfitt] |
4678 | Absolute prohibitions are the essence of ethics, and suicide is the most obvious example [Wittgenstein] |