16 ideas
19044 | Saying truths fit experience adds nothing to truth; nothing makes sentences true [Davidson] |
23548 | Indeterminacy is in conflict with classical logic [Fine,K] |
23539 | Classical semantics has referents for names, extensions for predicates, and T or F for sentences [Fine,K] |
23544 | Local indeterminacy concerns a single object, and global indeterminacy covers a range [Fine,K] |
23540 | Conjoining two indefinites by related sentences seems to produce a contradiction [Fine,K] |
23546 | Standardly vagueness involves borderline cases, and a higher standpoint from which they can be seen [Fine,K] |
23542 | Identifying vagueness with ignorance is the common mistake of confusing symptoms with cause [Fine,K] |
23541 | Supervaluation can give no answer to 'who is the last bald man' [Fine,K] |
23545 | We do not have an intelligible concept of a borderline case [Fine,K] |
6400 | Without the dualism of scheme and content, not much is left of empiricism [Davidson] |
6398 | Different points of view make sense, but they must be plotted on a common background [Davidson] |
23547 | It seems absurd that there is no identity of any kind between two objects which involve survival [Fine,K] |
6399 | Criteria of translation give us the identity of conceptual schemes [Davidson] |
1748 | Archelaus was the first person to say that the universe is boundless [Archelaus, by Diog. Laertius] |
23543 | We identify laws with regularities because we mistakenly identify causes with their symptoms [Fine,K] |
5989 | Archelaus said life began in a primeval slime [Archelaus, by Schofield] |