16 ideas
6859 | Analytic philosophy has much higher standards of thinking than continental philosophy [Williamson] |
11178 | The essence or definition of an essence involves either a class of properties or a class of propositions [Fine,K] |
6862 | Fuzzy logic uses a continuum of truth, but it implies contradictions [Williamson] |
6858 | Formal logic struck me as exactly the language I wanted to think in [Williamson] |
11175 | Logical concepts rest on certain inferences, not on facts about implications [Fine,K] |
11176 | The property of Property Abstraction says any suitable condition must imply a property [Fine,K] |
11174 | A logical truth is true in virtue of the nature of the logical concepts [Fine,K] |
6863 | Close to conceptual boundaries judgement is too unreliable to give knowledge [Williamson] |
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] |
6861 | What sort of logic is needed for vague concepts, and what sort of concept of truth? [Williamson] |
11177 | Can the essence of an object circularly involve itself, or involve another object? [Fine,K] |
11173 | Being a man is a consequence of his essence, not constitutive of it [Fine,K] |
11179 | If there are alternative definitions, then we have three possibilities for essence [Fine,K] |
17944 | 'Episteme' is better translated as 'understanding' than as 'knowledge' [Nehamas] |
6860 | How can one discriminate yellow from red, but not the colours in between? [Williamson] |