17 ideas
16000 | Fixed ideas should be tackled aggressively [Kierkegaard] |
12772 | Philosophy is a value- and attitude-driven enterprise [Fraassen] |
12771 | Is it likely that a successful, coherent, explanatory ontological hypothesis is true? [Fraassen] |
12773 | Analytic philosophy has an exceptional arsenal of critical tools [Fraassen] |
16012 | Philosophy can't be unbiased if it ignores language, as that is no more independent than individuals are [Kierkegaard] |
12770 | We may end up with a huge theory of carefully constructed falsehoods [Fraassen] |
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] |
12769 | Inference to best explanation contains all sorts of hidden values [Fraassen] |
12768 | We accept many scientific theories without endorsing them as true [Fraassen] |
11214 | We learn 'not' along with affirmation, by learning to either affirm or deny a sentence [Rumfitt] |
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] |
16001 | Life may be understood backwards, but it has to be lived forwards [Kierkegaard] |
16008 | The best way to be a Christian is without 'Christianity' [Kierkegaard] |
20735 | We need to see that Christianity cannot be understood [Kierkegaard] |