10 ideas
22101 | Philosophy aims to know the truth about the way things are [Aquinas] |
9358 | There are several logics, none of which will ever derive falsehoods from truth [Lewis,CI] |
9357 | Excluded middle is just our preference for a simplified dichotomy in experience [Lewis,CI] |
9364 | Names represent a uniformity in experience, or they name nothing [Lewis,CI] |
9362 | Necessary truths are those we will maintain no matter what [Lewis,CI] |
19378 | Early modern possibility is what occurs sometime; for Leibniz, it is what is not contradictory [Arthur,R] |
9365 | We can maintain a priori principles come what may, but we can also change them [Lewis,CI] |
19380 | Occasionalism contradicts the Eucharist, which needs genuine changes of substance [Arthur,R] |
9361 | We have to separate the mathematical from physical phenomena by abstraction [Lewis,CI] |
9363 | Science seeks classification which will discover laws, essences, and predictions [Lewis,CI] |