24 ideas
18996 | A statement S is 'partly true' if it has some wholly true parts [Yablo] |
19006 | An 'enthymeme' is an argument with an indispensable unstated assumption [Yablo] |
13430 | Infinity: there is an infinity of distinguishable individuals [Ramsey] |
13428 | Reducibility: to every non-elementary function there is an equivalent elementary function [Ramsey] |
18999 | y is only a proper part of x if there is a z which 'makes up the difference' between them [Yablo] |
13427 | Either 'a = b' vacuously names the same thing, or absurdly names different things [Ramsey] |
19001 | 'Pegasus doesn't exist' is false without Pegasus, yet the absence of Pegasus is its truthmaker [Yablo] |
13334 | Contradictions are either purely logical or mathematical, or they involved thought and language [Ramsey] |
19002 | A nominalist can assert statements about mathematical objects, as being partly true [Yablo] |
13426 | Formalists neglect content, but the logicists have focused on generalizations, and neglected form [Ramsey] |
13425 | Formalism is hopeless, because it focuses on propositions and ignores concepts [Ramsey] |
18998 | Parthood lacks the restriction of kind which most relations have [Yablo] |
22328 | I just confront the evidence, and let it act on me [Ramsey] |
19004 | Gettier says you don't know if you are confused about how it is true [Yablo] |
22325 | A belief is knowledge if it is true, certain and obtained by a reliable process [Ramsey] |
19007 | A theory need not be true to be good; it should just be true about its physical aspects [Yablo] |
18993 | If sentences point to different evidence, they must have different subject-matter [Yablo] |
19003 | Most people say nonblack nonravens do confirm 'all ravens are black', but only a tiny bit [Yablo] |
18992 | Sentence-meaning is the truth-conditions - plus factors responsible for them [Yablo] |
18994 | The content of an assertion can be quite different from compositional content [Yablo] |
18997 | Truth-conditions as subject-matter has problems of relevance, short cut, and reversal [Yablo] |
19005 | Not-A is too strong to just erase an improper assertion, because it actually reverses A [Yablo] |
1748 | Archelaus was the first person to say that the universe is boundless [Archelaus, by Diog. Laertius] |
5989 | Archelaus said life began in a primeval slime [Archelaus, by Schofield] |