10 ideas
17992 | The main aim of philosophy is to describe the whole Universe. [Moore,GE] |
6859 | Analytic philosophy has much higher standards of thinking than continental philosophy [Williamson] |
6862 | Fuzzy logic uses a continuum of truth, but it implies contradictions [Williamson] |
6858 | Formal logic struck me as exactly the language I wanted to think in [Williamson] |
6863 | Close to conceptual boundaries judgement is too unreliable to give knowledge [Williamson] |
14596 | Call 'nominalism' the denial of numbers, properties, relations and sets [Dorr] |
14597 | Natural Class Nominalism says there are primitive classes of things resembling in one respect [Dorr] |
6861 | What sort of logic is needed for vague concepts, and what sort of concept of truth? [Williamson] |
14598 | Abstracta imply non-logical brute necessities, so only nominalists can deny such things [Dorr] |
6860 | How can one discriminate yellow from red, but not the colours in between? [Williamson] |