19 ideas
21959 | Metaphysics is the most general attempt to make sense of things [Moore,AW] |
22438 | Philosophy is largely concerned with finding the minimum that science could get by with [Quine] |
22436 | Logicians don't paraphrase logic into language, because they think in the symbolic language [Quine] |
23449 | Interpreting a text is representing it as making sense [Morris,M] |
22431 | Good algorithms and theories need many occurrences of just a few elements [Quine] |
22435 | The logician's '→' does not mean the English if-then [Quine] |
22433 | It is important that the quantification over temporal entities is timeless [Quine] |
22437 | Logical languages are rooted in ordinary language, and that connection must be kept [Quine] |
23484 | Bipolarity adds to Bivalence the capacity for both truth values [Morris,M] |
22434 | Reduction to logical forms first simplifies idioms and grammar, then finds a single reading of it [Quine] |
23494 | Conjunctive and disjunctive quantifiers are too specific, and are confined to the finite [Morris,M] |
23451 | Counting needs to distinguish things, and also needs the concept of a successor in a series [Morris,M] |
23460 | To count, we must distinguish things, and have a series with successors in it [Morris,M] |
23452 | Discriminating things for counting implies concepts of identity and distinctness [Morris,M] |
22432 | Normally conditionals have no truth value; it is the consequent which has a conditional truth value [Quine] |
21958 | Appearances are nothing beyond representations, which is transcendental ideality [Moore,AW] |
22430 | If we understand a statement, we know the circumstances of its truth [Quine] |
23491 | There must exist a general form of propositions, which are predictabe. It is: such and such is the case [Morris,M] |
13713 | Quine holds time to be 'space-like': past objects are as real as spatially remote ones [Quine, by Sider] |