What Deleuze means by 'rhizome' vs 'tree' thinking — non-hierarchical networks vs hierarchical categories

What Deleuze and Guattari mean by 'deterritorialization' — breaking free from fixed structures of meaning

Deterritorialization: the process of escape from rigid conceptual boundaries

What Foucault means by 'power/knowledge' — knowledge production is inseparable from power relations

Foucault posits that knowledge creation is inherently linked to power dynamics, shaping societal structures

What Habermas means by communicative rationality — reason oriented toward mutual understanding, not domination

Communicative rationality: Reason aimed at shared understanding, not power

What qualia are — the subjective, felt qualities of experience (the redness of red)

Qualia represent the intrinsic, subjective aspects of conscious experiences

What Quine's 'Two Dogmas of Empiricism' attacked — the analytic/synthetic distinction and reductionism

Quine's 'Two Dogmas' critiques the analytic/synthetic distinction and reductionism

What Levinas means by ethics as first philosophy — responsibility for the Other precedes knowledge

Levinas: Ethical responsibility to the Other precedes ontological knowledge