11 ideas
13407 | All worthwhile philosophy is synthetic theorizing, evaluated by experience [Papineau] |
19086 | Does the pragmatic theory of meaning support objective truth, or make it impossible? [Macbeth] |
19093 | Greek mathematics is wholly sensory, where ours is wholly inferential [Macbeth] |
13409 | Our best theories may commit us to mathematical abstracta, but that doesn't justify the commitment [Papineau] |
13406 | A priori knowledge is analytic - the structure of our concepts - and hence unimportant [Papineau] |
13408 | Intuition and thought-experiments embody substantial information about the world [Papineau] |
19091 | Seeing reality mathematically makes it an object of thought, not of experience [Macbeth] |
5987 | Alcmaeon was the first to say the brain is central to thinking [Alcmaeon, by Staden, von] |
19088 | For pragmatists a concept means its consequences [Macbeth] |
13410 | Verificationism about concepts means you can't deny a theory, because you can't have the concept [Papineau] |
24043 | Soul must be immortal, since it continually moves, like the heavens [Alcmaeon, by Aristotle] |