8 ideas
9786 | Philosophers working like teams of scientists is absurd, yet isolation is hard [Cartwright,R] |
21552 | Common speech is vague; its vocabulary and syntax must be modified, for precision [Russell] |
9784 | A false proposition isn't truer because it is part of a coherent system [Cartwright,R] |
21551 | Empirical words need ostensive definition, which makes them egocentric [Russell] |
17945 | Forms are not a theory of universals, but an attempt to explain how predication is possible [Nehamas] |
17946 | Only Tallness really is tall, and other inferior tall things merely participate in the tallness [Nehamas] |
17944 | 'Episteme' is better translated as 'understanding' than as 'knowledge' [Nehamas] |
21550 | Science reduces indexicals to a minimum, but they can never be eliminated from empirical matters [Russell] |