9 ideas
21677 | How can the not-true fail to be false, or the not-false fail to be true? [Cicero] |
7332 | There is a huge range of sentences of which we do not know the logical form [Davidson] |
7772 | Compositionality explains how long sentences work, and truth conditions are the main compositional feature [Davidson, by Lycan] |
7327 | Davidson thinks Frege lacks an account of how words create sentence-meaning [Davidson, by Miller,A] |
7769 | You can state truth-conditions for "I am sick now" by relativising it to a speaker at a time [Davidson, by Lycan] |
21667 | Oratory and philosophy are closely allied; orators borrow from philosophy, and ornament it [Cicero] |
6179 | Should we assume translation to define truth, or the other way around? [Blackburn on Davidson] |
21678 | If desire is not in our power then neither are choices, so we should not be praised or punished [Cicero] |
4366 | We can't accept Aristotle's naturalism about persons, because it is normative and unscientific [Williams,B, by Hursthouse] |