24 ideas
18996 | A statement S is 'partly true' if it has some wholly true parts [Yablo] |
19006 | An 'enthymeme' is an argument with an indispensable unstated assumption [Yablo] |
18999 | y is only a proper part of x if there is a z which 'makes up the difference' between them [Yablo] |
19001 | 'Pegasus doesn't exist' is false without Pegasus, yet the absence of Pegasus is its truthmaker [Yablo] |
19002 | A nominalist can assert statements about mathematical objects, as being partly true [Yablo] |
10197 | An immanent universal is wholly present in more than one place [Zimmerman,DW] |
18998 | Parthood lacks the restriction of kind which most relations have [Yablo] |
10198 | If only two indiscernible electrons exist, future differences must still be possible [Zimmerman,DW] |
10199 | Discernible differences at different times may just be in counterparts [Zimmerman,DW] |
19004 | Gettier says you don't know if you are confused about how it is true [Yablo] |
5163 | Basic propositions refer to a single experience, are incorrigible, and conclusively verifiable [Ayer] |
19007 | A theory need not be true to be good; it should just be true about its physical aspects [Yablo] |
18993 | If sentences point to different evidence, they must have different subject-matter [Yablo] |
19003 | Most people say nonblack nonravens do confirm 'all ravens are black', but only a tiny bit [Yablo] |
5167 | The argument from analogy fails, so the best account of other minds is behaviouristic [Ayer] |
18992 | Sentence-meaning is the truth-conditions - plus factors responsible for them [Yablo] |
5164 | A statement is meaningful if observation statements can be deduced from it [Ayer] |
5165 | Directly verifiable statements must entail at least one new observation statement [Ayer] |
5166 | The principle of verification is not an empirical hypothesis, but a definition [Ayer] |
18994 | The content of an assertion can be quite different from compositional content [Yablo] |
18997 | Truth-conditions as subject-matter has problems of relevance, short cut, and reversal [Yablo] |
5162 | Sentences only express propositions if they are meaningful; otherwise they are 'statements' [Ayer] |
19005 | Not-A is too strong to just erase an improper assertion, because it actually reverses A [Yablo] |
5168 | Moral approval and disapproval concerns classes of actions, rather than particular actions [Ayer] |