21 ideas
19579 | The history of philosophy is just experiments in how to do philosophy [Novalis] |
19583 | Philosophy only begins when it studies itself [Novalis] |
16000 | Fixed ideas should be tackled aggressively [Kierkegaard] |
16012 | Philosophy can't be unbiased if it ignores language, as that is no more independent than individuals are [Kierkegaard] |
11211 | If a sound conclusion comes from two errors that cancel out, the path of the argument must matter [Rumfitt] |
11210 | Standardly 'and' and 'but' are held to have the same sense by having the same truth table [Rumfitt] |
11212 | The sense of a connective comes from primitively obvious rules of inference [Rumfitt] |
19581 | A problem is a solid mass, which the mind must break up [Novalis] |
19584 | Whoever first counted to two must have seen the possibility of infinite counting [Novalis] |
22025 | Novalis thought self-consciousness cannot disclose 'being', because we are temporal creatures [Novalis, by Pinkard] |
22067 | Poetry is true idealism, and the self-consciousness of the universe [Novalis] |
11214 | We learn 'not' along with affirmation, by learning to either affirm or deny a sentence [Rumfitt] |
19585 | Every person has his own language [Novalis] |
19582 | Morality and philosophy are mutually dependent [Novalis] |
16003 | If people marry just because they are lonely, that is self-love, not love [Kierkegaard] |
21910 | Our destiny is the highest pitch of world-weariness [Kierkegaard] |
22027 | Life isn't given to us like a novel - we write the novel [Novalis] |
16001 | Life may be understood backwards, but it has to be lived forwards [Kierkegaard] |
19580 | If the pupil really yearns for the truth, they only need a hint [Novalis] |
16008 | The best way to be a Christian is without 'Christianity' [Kierkegaard] |
20735 | We need to see that Christianity cannot be understood [Kierkegaard] |