22 ideas
8092 | Logic was merely a branch of rhetoric until the scientific 17th century [Devlin] |
2546 | Philosophy is a magnificent failure in its attempt to overstep the limits of our knowledge [McGinn] |
8081 | 'No councillors are bankers' and 'All bankers are athletes' implies 'Some athletes are not councillors' [Devlin] |
8085 | Modern propositional inference replaces Aristotle's 19 syllogisms with modus ponens [Devlin] |
8086 | Predicate logic retains the axioms of propositional logic [Devlin] |
8091 | Situation theory is logic that takes account of context [Devlin] |
8087 | Golden ages: 1900-1960 for pure logic, and 1950-1985 for applied logic [Devlin] |
8089 | Montague's intensional logic incorporated the notion of meaning [Devlin] |
8082 | Where a conditional is purely formal, an implication implies a link between premise and conclusion [Devlin] |
8072 | Sentences of apparent identical form can have different contextual meanings [Devlin] |
2544 | Thoughts have a dual aspect: as they seem to introspection, and their underlying logical reality [McGinn] |
8075 | Space and time are atomic in the arrow, and divisible in the tortoise [Devlin] |
8088 | People still say the Hopi have no time concepts, despite Whorf's later denial [Devlin] |
2539 | Mental modules for language, social, action, theory, space, emotion [McGinn] |
2545 | Free will is mental causation in action [McGinn] |
2543 | Brains aren't made of anything special, suggesting panpsychism [McGinn] |
2540 | Examining mind sees no brain; examining brain sees no mind [McGinn] |
8073 | How do we parse 'time flies like an arrow' and 'fruit flies like an apple'? [Devlin] |
2547 | There is information if there are symbols which refer, and which can combine into a truth or falsehood [McGinn] |
8076 | The distinction between sentences and abstract propositions is crucial in logic [Devlin] |
468 | Musical performance can reveal a range of virtues [Damon of Ath.] |
2542 | Causation in the material world is energy-transfer, of motion, electricity or gravity [McGinn] |