6 ideas
10121 | Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor lack of contradiction a sign of truth [Pascal] |
14361 | Lewis says indicative conditionals are truth-functional [Lewis, by Jackson] |
8434 | In good counterfactuals the consequent holds in world like ours except that the antecedent is true [Lewis, by Horwich] |
8824 | No one has defended translational phenomenalism since Ayer in 1940 [Ayer, by Kim] |
15251 | The attribution of necessity to causation is either primitive animism, or confusion with logical necessity [Ayer] |
9419 | A law of nature is a general axiom of the deductive system that is best for simplicity and strength [Lewis] |