16 ideas
1403 | A rational donkey would starve to death between two totally identical piles of hay [Buridan, by PG] |
3745 | Must sentences make statements to qualify for truth? [O'Connor] |
3742 | Beliefs must match facts, but also words must match beliefs [O'Connor] |
3744 | The semantic theory requires sentences as truth-bearers, not propositions [O'Connor] |
3749 | What does 'true in English' mean? [O'Connor] |
3746 | Logic seems to work for unasserted sentences [O'Connor] |
3747 | Events are fast changes which are of interest to us [O'Connor] |
16643 | Accidents always remain suited to a subject [Bonaventura] |
16678 | Without magnitude a thing would retain its parts, but they would have no location [Buridan] |
16696 | Successive things reduce to permanent things [Bonaventura] |
16793 | A thing is (less properly) the same over time if each part is succeeded by another [Buridan] |
3743 | We can't contemplate our beliefs until we have expressed them [O'Connor] |
3748 | Without language our beliefs are particular and present [O'Connor] |
16726 | Why can't we deduce secondary qualities from primary ones, if they cause them? [Buridan] |
16577 | Induction is not demonstration, because not all of the instances can be observed [Buridan] |
16576 | Science is based on induction, for general truths about fire, rhubarb and magnets [Buridan] |