11 ideas
7085 | The main problem of philosophy is what can and cannot be thought and expressed [Wittgenstein, by Grayling] |
15545 | Armstrong's analysis seeks truthmakers rather than definitions [Lewis] |
5035 | The two basics of reasoning are contradiction and sufficient reason [Leibniz] |
15546 | Predications aren't true because of what exists, but of how it exists [Lewis] |
15548 | Say 'truth is supervenient on being', but construe 'being' broadly [Lewis] |
14399 | Presentism says only the present exists, so there is nothing for tensed truths to supervene on [Lewis] |
23463 | Atomic facts correspond to true elementary propositions [Wittgenstein] |
15543 | How do things combine to make states of affairs? Constituents can repeat, and fail to combine [Lewis] |
5038 | Assume that mind and body follow their own laws, but God has harmonised them [Leibniz] |
23490 | A thought is mental constituents that relate to reality as words do [Wittgenstein] |
5037 | God doesn't decide that Adam will sin, but that sinful Adam's existence is to be preferred [Leibniz] |