16 ideas
23449 | Interpreting a text is representing it as making sense [Morris,M] |
23484 | Bipolarity adds to Bivalence the capacity for both truth values [Morris,M] |
23494 | Conjunctive and disjunctive quantifiers are too specific, and are confined to the finite [Morris,M] |
13931 | By using aporiai as his start, Aristotle can defer to the wise, as well as to the many [Haslanger] |
23451 | Counting needs to distinguish things, and also needs the concept of a successor in a series [Morris,M] |
23460 | To count, we must distinguish things, and have a series with successors in it [Morris,M] |
23452 | Discriminating things for counting implies concepts of identity and distinctness [Morris,M] |
13925 | Ontology disputes rest on more basic explanation disputes [Haslanger] |
13924 | The persistence of objects seems to be needed if the past is to explain the present [Haslanger] |
13930 | Persistence makes change and its products intelligible [Haslanger] |
13927 | We must explain change amongst 'momentary entities', or else the world is inexplicable [Haslanger] |
13928 | If the things which exist prior to now are totally distinct, they need not have existed [Haslanger] |
3061 | Anaxarchus said that he was not even sure that he knew nothing [Anaxarchus, by Diog. Laertius] |
13929 | Natural explanations give the causal interconnections [Haslanger] |
13926 | Best explanations, especially natural ones, need grounding, notably by persistent objects [Haslanger] |
23491 | There must exist a general form of propositions, which are predictabe. It is: such and such is the case [Morris,M] |