13 ideas
18755 | Validity is explained as truth in all models, because that relies on the logical terms [McGee] |
18751 | Natural language includes connectives like 'because' which are not truth-functional [McGee] |
18761 | Second-order variables need to range over more than collections of first-order objects [McGee] |
18753 | An ontologically secure semantics for predicate calculus relies on sets [McGee] |
18754 | Logically valid sentences are analytic truths which are just true because of their logical words [McGee] |
18757 | Soundness theorems are uninformative, because they rely on soundness in their proofs [McGee] |
18760 | The culmination of Euclidean geometry was axioms that made all models isomorphic [McGee] |
16664 | Everything that exists is either a substance or an accident [Albert of Saxony] |
16703 | God could make a successive thing so that previous parts cease to exist [Albert of Saxony] |
16699 | Successive entities just need parts to succeed one another, without their existence [Albert of Saxony] |
3061 | Anaxarchus said that he was not even sure that he knew nothing [Anaxarchus, by Diog. Laertius] |
18762 | A maxim claims that if we are allowed to assert a sentence, that means it must be true [McGee] |
16570 | Elements are found last in dismantling bodies, and first in generating them [Albert of Saxony] |