10 ideas
7332 | There is a huge range of sentences of which we do not know the logical form [Davidson] |
21386 | We should accept as explanations all the plausible ways in which something could come about [Epicurus] |
7772 | Compositionality explains how long sentences work, and truth conditions are the main compositional feature [Davidson, by Lycan] |
7327 | Davidson thinks Frege lacks an account of how words create sentence-meaning [Davidson, by Miller,A] |
7769 | You can state truth-conditions for "I am sick now" by relativising it to a speaker at a time [Davidson, by Lycan] |
6179 | Should we assume translation to define truth, or the other way around? [Blackburn on Davidson] |
541 | Virtue comes more from habit than character [Critias] |
14051 | A cosmos is a collection of stars and an earth, with some sort of boundary, movement and shape [Epicurus] |
1828 | God does not intervene in heavenly movements, but is beyond all action and perfectly happy [Epicurus] |
542 | Fear of the gods was invented to discourage secret sin [Critias] |