Combining Philosophers

All the ideas for Archimedes, Wallace, J and Susan Haack

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4 ideas

3. Truth / C. Correspondence Truth / 3. Correspondence Truth critique

2572	Logical truth seems much less likely to 'correspond to the facts' than factual truth does [Haack]

3. Truth / F. Semantic Truth / 1. Tarski's Truth / a. Tarski's truth definition

2570	The same sentence could be true in one language and meaningless in another, so truth is language-relative [Haack]

5. Theory of Logic / G. Quantification / 4. Substitutional Quantification

10009

Substitutional quantification is just a variant of Tarski's account [Wallace, by Baldwin]

6. Mathematics / B. Foundations for Mathematics / 3. Axioms for Geometry

13007

Archimedes defined a straight line as the shortest distance between two points [Archimedes, by Leibniz]