10 ideas
9052 | Vague predicates lack application; there are no borderline cases; vague F is not F [Unger, by Keefe/Smith] |
16070 | There are no objects with proper parts; there are only mereological simples [Unger, by Wasserman] |
8724 | The meaning of 'know' does not change from courtroom to living room [Unger] |
8722 | No one knows anything, and no one is ever justified or reasonable [Unger] |
8723 | An evil scientist may give you a momentary life, with totally false memories [Unger] |
3916 | Hopi consistently prefers verbs and events to nouns and things [Whorf] |
3914 | Language arranges sensory experience to form a world-order [Whorf] |
3917 | Scientific thought is essentially a specialised part of Indo-European languages [Whorf] |
20653 | Six reduction levels: groups, lives, cells, molecules, atoms, particles [Putnam/Oppenheim, by Watson] |
3915 | The Hopi have no concept of time as something flowing from past to future [Whorf] |