20 ideas
13407 | All worthwhile philosophy is synthetic theorizing, evaluated by experience [Papineau] |
23634 | Accepting the existence of anything presupposes the notion of existence [Reid] |
13409 | Our best theories may commit us to mathematical abstracta, but that doesn't justify the commitment [Papineau] |
14637 | Only individuals have essences, so numbers (as a higher type based on classes) lack them [McMichael] |
14636 | Essences are the interesting necessary properties resulting from a thing's own peculiar nature [McMichael] |
14640 | Maybe essential properties have to be intrinsic, as well as necessary? [McMichael] |
14638 | Essentialism is false, because it implies the existence of necessary singular propositions [McMichael] |
23635 | Truths are self-evident to sensible persons who understand them clearly without prejudice [Reid] |
13406 | A priori knowledge is analytic - the structure of our concepts - and hence unimportant [Papineau] |
7631 | Sensation is not committed to any external object, but perception is [Reid] |
23637 | Primary qualities are the object of mathematics [Reid] |
23638 | Secondary qualities conjure up, and are confused with, the sensations which produce them [Reid] |
23639 | It is unclear whether a toothache is in the mind or in the tooth, but the word has a single meaning [Reid] |
6492 | Reid is seen as the main direct realist of the eighteenth century [Reid, by Robinson,H] |
13408 | Intuition and thought-experiments embody substantial information about the world [Papineau] |
23641 | People dislike believing without evidence, and try to avoid it [Reid] |
23642 | If non-rational evidence reaches us, it is reason which then makes use of it [Reid] |
23640 | Only mature minds can distinguish the qualities of a body [Reid] |
13410 | Verificationism about concepts means you can't deny a theory, because you can't have the concept [Papineau] |
14639 | Individuals enter into laws only through their general qualities and relations [McMichael] |