22 ideas
19066 | Philosophy aims to understand the world, through ordinary experience and science [Dummett] |
19067 | A successful proof requires recognition of truth at every step [Dummett] |
19060 | Truth-tables are dubious in some cases, and may be a bad way to explain connective meaning [Dummett] |
11066 | Deduction is justified by the semantics of its metalanguage [Dummett, by Hanna] |
19058 | Syntactic consequence is positive, for validity; semantic version is negative, with counterexamples [Dummett] |
19063 | Beth trees show semantics for intuitionistic logic, in terms of how truth has been established [Dummett] |
19059 | In standard views you could replace 'true' and 'false' with mere 0 and 1 [Dummett] |
19062 | Classical two-valued semantics implies that meaning is grasped through truth-conditions [Dummett] |
19065 | Soundness and completeness proofs test the theory of meaning, rather than the logic theory [Dummett] |
3626 | Knowing the attributes is enough to reveal a substance [Descartes] |
3630 | Our thinking about external things doesn't disprove the existence of innate ideas [Descartes] |
6417 | In 1921 Russell abandoned sense-data, and the gap between sensation and object [Russell, by Grayling] |
6474 | Seeing is not in itself knowledge, but is separate from what is seen, such as a patch of colour [Russell] |
6476 | We cannot assume that the subject actually exists, so we cannot distinguish sensations from sense-data [Russell] |
2792 | It is possible the world came into existence five minutes ago, complete with false memories [Russell] |
22326 | Knowledge needs more than a sensitive response; the response must also be appropriate [Russell] |
19061 | An explanation is often a deduction, but that may well beg the question [Dummett] |
6475 | In perception, the self is just a logical fiction demanded by grammar [Russell] |
3631 | A blind man may still contain the idea of colour [Descartes] |
19064 | Holism is not a theory of meaning; it is the denial that a theory of meaning is possible [Dummett] |
3639 | Necessary existence is a property which is uniquely part of God's essence [Descartes] |
3640 | Possible existence is a perfection in the idea of a triangle [Descartes] |