13 ideas
7500 | Early Greeks cared about city and companions; later Greeks concentrated on the self [Foucault] |
18755 | Validity is explained as truth in all models, because that relies on the logical terms [McGee] |
18751 | Natural language includes connectives like 'because' which are not truth-functional [McGee] |
18761 | Second-order variables need to range over more than collections of first-order objects [McGee] |
18753 | An ontologically secure semantics for predicate calculus relies on sets [McGee] |
18754 | Logically valid sentences are analytic truths which are just true because of their logical words [McGee] |
18757 | Soundness theorems are uninformative, because they rely on soundness in their proofs [McGee] |
18760 | The culmination of Euclidean geometry was axioms that made all models isomorphic [McGee] |
12695 | Epicurean atomists say body is sensible, to distinguish it from space. [Garber] |
18762 | A maxim claims that if we are allowed to assert a sentence, that means it must be true [McGee] |
7501 | Why couldn't a person's life become a work of art? [Foucault] |
7498 | Greeks and early Christians were much more concerned about food than about sex [Foucault] |
12705 | Epicurean atoms are distinguished by their extreme hardness [Garber] |