11 ideas
19086 | Does the pragmatic theory of meaning support objective truth, or make it impossible? [Macbeth] |
17990 | Instances of minimal truth miss out propositions inexpressible in current English [Hofweber] |
13418 | The old problems with the axiom of choice are probably better ascribed to the law of excluded middle [Parsons,C] |
17988 | Quantification can't all be substitutional; some reference is obviously to objects [Hofweber] |
19093 | Greek mathematics is wholly sensory, where ours is wholly inferential [Macbeth] |
13419 | If functions are transfinite objects, finitists can have no conception of them [Parsons,C] |
13417 | If a mathematical structure is rejected from a physical theory, it retains its mathematical status [Parsons,C] |
17989 | Since properties have properties, there can be a typed or a type-free theory of them [Hofweber] |
19091 | Seeing reality mathematically makes it an object of thought, not of experience [Macbeth] |
19088 | For pragmatists a concept means its consequences [Macbeth] |
17991 | Holism says language can't be translated; the expressibility hypothesis says everything can [Hofweber] |