11 ideas
| 10838 | To explain a concept, we need its purpose, not just its rules of usage [Dummett] |
| 10837 | It is part of the concept of truth that we aim at making true statements [Dummett] |
| 10840 | We must be able to specify truths in a precise language, like winning moves in a game [Dummett] |
| 19171 | Tarski's truth is like rules for winning games, without saying what 'winning' means [Dummett, by Davidson] |
| 18270 | Choice suggests that intensions are not needed to ensure classes [Coffa] |
| 13007 | Archimedes defined a straight line as the shortest distance between two points [Archimedes, by Leibniz] |
| 18263 | The semantic tradition aimed to explain the a priori semantically, not by Kantian intuition [Coffa] |
| 18272 | Platonism defines the a priori in a way that makes it unknowable [Coffa] |
| 18266 | Mathematics generalises by using variables [Coffa] |
| 10839 | You can't infer a dog's abstract concepts from its behaviour [Dummett] |
| 18279 | Relativity is as absolutist about space-time as Newton was about space [Coffa] |