12 ideas
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] |
8568 | A property is merely a constituent of laws of nature; temperature is just part of thermodynamics [Mellor] |
8564 | There is obviously a possible predicate for every property [Mellor] |
8566 | We need universals for causation and laws of nature; the latter give them their identity [Mellor] |
8565 | If properties were just the meanings of predicates, they couldn't give predicates their meaning [Mellor] |
6861 | What sort of logic is needed for vague concepts, and what sort of concept of truth? [Williamson] |
5958 | The sun is always bright; it doesn't become bright when it emerges [Plutarch] |
6860 | How can one discriminate yellow from red, but not the colours in between? [Williamson] |
8567 | Singular causation requires causes to raise the physical probability of their effects [Mellor] |