Ideas from 'The Rise of Analytic Philosophy 1879-1930' by Michael Potter [2020], by Theme Structure

[found in 'The Rise of Anaytic Philosophy 1879-1930' by Potter,Michael [Routledge 2020,978-1-138-01514-2]].

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2. Reason / D. Definition / 8. Impredicative Definition

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Impredicative definitions are circular, but fine for picking out, rather than creating something

3. Truth / A. Truth Problems / 2. Defining Truth

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The Identity Theory says a proposition is true if it coincides with what makes it true

3. Truth / C. Correspondence Truth / 1. Correspondence Truth

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It has been unfortunate that externalism about truth is equated with correspondence

5. Theory of Logic / B. Logical Consequence / 3. Deductive Consequence |-

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Frege's sign |--- meant judgements, but the modern |- turnstile means inference, with intecedents

5. Theory of Logic / C. Ontology of Logic / 3. If-Thenism

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Deductivism can't explain how the world supports unconditional conclusions

5. Theory of Logic / I. Semantics of Logic / 3. Logical Truth

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Modern logical truths are true under all interpretations of the non-logical words

6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 7. Formalism

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The formalist defence against Gödel is to reject his metalinguistic concept of truth

6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 9. Fictional Mathematics

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Why is fictional arithmetic applicable to the real world?

7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 7. Abstract/Concrete / a. Abstract/concrete

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If 'concrete' is the negative of 'abstract', that means desires and hallucinations are concrete

8. Modes of Existence / A. Relations / 4. Formal Relations / c. Ancestral relation

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'Greater than', which is the ancestral of 'successor', strictly orders the natural numbers

10. Modality / B. Possibility / 8. Conditionals / c. Truth-function conditionals

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A material conditional cannot capture counterfactual reasoning

13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 3. Reliabilism / b. Anti-reliabilism

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Knowledge from a drunken schoolteacher is from a reliable and unreliable process

18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 6. Judgement / a. Nature of Judgement

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Traditionally there are twelve categories of judgement, in groups of three

18. Thought / D. Concepts / 3. Ontology of Concepts / c. Fregean concepts

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The phrase 'the concept "horse"' can't refer to a concept, because it is saturated

19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 4. Compositionality

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Compositionality should rely on the parsing tree, which may contain more than sentence components

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'Direct compositonality' says the components wholly explain a sentence meaning

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Compositionality is more welcome in logic than in linguistics (which is more contextual)