13 ideas
5300 | Philosophers have interpreted the world, but the point is to change it [Marx] |
5297 | Whether human thinking can be 'true' must be decided in practice, not theory [Marx] |
21750 | Science is sympathetic to truth as correspondence, since it depends on observation [Quine] |
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] |
21748 | More careful inductions gradually lead to the hypothetico-deductive method [Quine] |
22598 | The authentic self exists at the level of class, rather than the individual [Marx, by Dunt] |
11214 | We learn 'not' along with affirmation, by learning to either affirm or deny a sentence [Rumfitt] |
5298 | The human essence is not found in individuals but in social relations [Marx] |
21749 | Altruistic values concern other persons, and ceremonial values concern practices [Quine] |
21751 | Love seems to diminish with distance from oneself [Quine] |
5299 | Religious feeling is social in origin [Marx] |