21 ideas
17651 | Without words or other symbols, we have no world [Goodman] |
18889 | Ostensive definitions needn't involve pointing, but must refer to something specific [Salmon,N] |
17652 | Truth is irrelevant if no statements are involved [Goodman] |
14627 | S4, and therefore S5, are invalid for metaphysical modality [Salmon,N, by Williamson] |
17656 | Being primitive or prior always depends on a constructional system [Goodman] |
17661 | We don't recognise patterns - we invent them [Goodman] |
17659 | Reality is largely a matter of habit [Goodman] |
17657 | We build our world, and ignore anything that won't fit [Goodman] |
17654 | A world can be full of variety or not, depending on how we sort it [Goodman] |
18888 | Essentialism says some properties must be possessed, if a thing is to exist [Salmon,N] |
17653 | Things can only be judged the 'same' by citing some respect of sameness [Goodman] |
22518 | The actual must be possible, because it occurred [Aristotle] |
17660 | Discovery is often just finding a fit, like a jigsaw puzzle [Goodman] |
17658 | Users of digital thermometers recognise no temperatures in the gaps [Goodman] |
17650 | We lack frames of reference to transform physics, biology and psychology into one another [Goodman] |
17655 | Grue and green won't be in the same world, as that would block induction entirely [Goodman] |
18886 | Frege's 'sense' solves four tricky puzzles [Salmon,N] |
18887 | The perfect case of direct reference is a variable which has been assigned a value [Salmon,N] |
16566 | Poetry is more philosophic than history, as it concerns universals, not particulars [Aristotle] |
17649 | If the world is one it has many aspects, and if there are many worlds they will collect into one [Goodman] |
18891 | Nothing in the direct theory of reference blocks anti-essentialism; water structure might have been different [Salmon,N] |