3 ideas
1489 | Modern philosophy tends to be a theory-constructing extension of science, but there is also problem-solving [Nagel] |
Full Idea: Philosophy is now dominated by a spirit of theory construction which sees philosophy as continuous with science, but the other problem-centred style is still in existence and it is important to keep it alive. | |
From: Thomas Nagel (The Philosophical Culture [1995], §6) |
13536 | Skolem did not believe in the existence of uncountable sets [Skolem] |
Full Idea: Skolem did not believe in the existence of uncountable sets. | |
From: Thoralf Skolem (works [1920], 5.3) | |
A reaction: Kit Fine refers somewhere to 'unrepentent Skolemites' who still hold this view. |
10792 | The substitutional quantifier is not in competition with the standard interpretation [Kripke, by Marcus (Barcan)] |
Full Idea: Kripke proposes that the substitutional quantifier is not a replacement for, or in competition with, the standard interpretation. | |
From: report of Saul A. Kripke (A Problem about Substitutional Quantification? [1976]) by Ruth Barcan Marcus - Nominalism and Substitutional Quantifiers p.165 |