20 ideas
17713 | After 1903, Husserl avoids metaphysical commitments [Mares] |
17715 | The truth of the axioms doesn't matter for pure mathematics, but it does for applied [Mares] |
17716 | Mathematics is relations between properties we abstract from experience [Mares] |
17703 | Light in straight lines is contingent a priori; stipulated as straight, because they happen to be so [Mares] |
17714 | Aristotelians dislike the idea of a priori judgements from pure reason [Mares] |
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] |
17705 | Empiricists say rationalists mistake imaginative powers for modal insights [Mares] |
2792 | It is possible the world came into existence five minutes ago, complete with false memories [Russell] |
17700 | The most popular view is that coherent beliefs explain one another [Mares] |
22326 | Knowledge needs more than a sensitive response; the response must also be appropriate [Russell] |
17704 | Operationalism defines concepts by our ways of measuring them [Mares] |
6475 | In perception, the self is just a logical fiction demanded by grammar [Russell] |
17722 | The concept 'red' is tied to what actually individuates red things [Peacocke] |
17710 | Aristotelian justification uses concepts abstracted from experience [Mares] |
17706 | The essence of a concept is either its definition or its conceptual relations? [Mares] |
17701 | Possible worlds semantics has a nice compositional account of modal statements [Mares] |
17702 | Unstructured propositions are sets of possible worlds; structured ones have components [Mares] |
17708 | Maybe space has points, but processes always need regions with a size [Mares] |