10 ideas
16489 | Is it possible to state every possible truth about the whole course of nature without using 'not'? [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] |
16490 | Some facts about experience feel like logical necessities [Russell] |
17944 | 'Episteme' is better translated as 'understanding' than as 'knowledge' [Nehamas] |
16488 | It is hard to explain how a sentence like 'it is not raining' can be found true by observation [Russell] |
7441 | Experiences are defined by their causal role, and causal roles belong to physical states [Lewis] |
7442 | 'Pain' contingently names the state that occupies the causal role of pain [Lewis] |
16491 | If we define 'this is not blue' as disbelief in 'this is blue', we eliminate 'not' as an ingredient of facts [Russell] |
4786 | Russell's 'at-at' theory says motion is to be at the intervening points at the intervening instants [Russell, by Psillos] |