19 ideas
| 18696 | The vagueness of truthmaker claims makes it easier to run anti-realist arguments [Button] |
| 18701 | The coherence theory says truth is coherence of thoughts, and not about objects [Button] |
| 18694 | Permutation Theorem: any theory with a decent model has lots of models [Button] |
| 18692 | Realists believe in independent objects, correspondence, and fallibility of all theories [Button] |
| 18693 | Indeterminacy arguments say if a theory can be made true, it has multiple versions [Button] |
| 18695 | An ideal theory can't be wholly false, because its consistency implies a true model [Button] |
| 18700 | Cartesian scepticism doubts what is true; Kantian scepticism doubts that it is sayable [Button] |
| 18698 | Predictions give the 'content' of theories, which can then be 'equivalent' or 'adequate' [Button] |
| 20653 | Six reduction levels: groups, lives, cells, molecules, atoms, particles [Putnam/Oppenheim, by Watson] |
| 18697 | A sentence's truth conditions are all the situations where it would be true [Button] |
| 23429 | The environment needs localised politics, with its care for the land [Dobson] |
| 23424 | An ideology judges things now, and offers an ideal, with a strategy for reaching it [Dobson] |
| 23426 | Ecologism is often non-liberal, by claiming to know other people's best interests [Dobson] |
| 23427 | Socialism can be productive and centralised, or less productive and decentralised [Dobson] |
| 23428 | Difference feminists say women differ fundamentally from men [Dobson] |
| 23422 | For the environment, affluence and technology matter as much as population size [Dobson] |
| 23425 | Ecologism says growth must be reduced, and efficiency is not enough [Dobson] |
| 23423 | We currently value the present fourteen times more highly than the future [Dobson] |
| 23430 | A million years is a proper unit of political time [Dobson] |