20 ideas
21959 | Metaphysics is the most general attempt to make sense of things [Moore,AW] |
10825 | The notion of truth is to help us make use of the utterances of others [Field,H] |
10820 | In the early 1930s many philosophers thought truth was not scientific [Field,H] |
10818 | Tarski really explained truth in terms of denoting, predicating and satisfied functions [Field,H] |
13499 | Tarski reduced truth to reference or denotation [Field,H, by Hart,WD] |
10817 | Tarski just reduced truth to some other undefined semantic notions [Field,H] |
10819 | Tarski gives us the account of truth needed to build a group of true sentences in a model [Field,H] |
10827 | Model theory is unusual in restricting the range of the quantifiers [Field,H] |
21958 | Appearances are nothing beyond representations, which is transcendental ideality [Moore,AW] |
20298 | The traditional a priori is justified without experience; post-Quine it became unrevisable by experience [Rey] |
10826 | 'Valence' and 'gene' had to be reduced to show their compatibility with physicalism [Field,H] |
20300 | Externalist synonymy is there being a correct link to the same external phenomena [Rey] |
7615 | Field says reference is a causal physical relation between mental states and objects [Field,H, by Putnam] |
20294 | 'Married' does not 'contain' its symmetry, nor 'bigger than' its transitivity [Rey] |
20293 | Analytic judgements can't be explained by contradiction, since that is what is assumed [Rey] |
20297 | Analytic statements are undeniable (because of meaning), rather than unrevisable [Rey] |
20301 | The meaning properties of a term are those which explain how the term is typically used [Rey] |
20302 | An intrinsic language faculty may fix what is meaningful (as well as grammatical) [Rey] |
20303 | Research throws doubts on the claimed intuitions which support analyticity [Rey] |
20299 | If we claim direct insight to what is analytic, how do we know it is not sub-consciously empirical? [Rey] |