13 ideas
21750 | Science is sympathetic to truth as correspondence, since it depends on observation [Quine] |
11970 | Logicians like their entities to exhibit a maximum degree of purity [Kaplan] |
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] |
11969 | Models nicely separate particulars from their clothing, and logicians often accept that metaphysically [Kaplan] |
11971 | The simplest solution to transworld identification is to adopt bare particulars [Kaplan] |
11972 | Essence is a transworld heir line, rather than a collection of properties [Kaplan] |
11973 | Unusual people may have no counterparts, or several [Kaplan] |
17944 | 'Episteme' is better translated as 'understanding' than as 'knowledge' [Nehamas] |
21748 | More careful inductions gradually lead to the hypothetico-deductive method [Quine] |
11967 | Sentences might have the same sense when logically equivalent - or never have the same sense [Kaplan] |
21749 | Altruistic values concern other persons, and ceremonial values concern practices [Quine] |
21751 | Love seems to diminish with distance from oneself [Quine] |