16 ideas
22438 | Philosophy is largely concerned with finding the minimum that science could get by with [Quine] |
22436 | Logicians don't paraphrase logic into language, because they think in the symbolic language [Quine] |
22431 | Good algorithms and theories need many occurrences of just a few elements [Quine] |
22435 | The logician's '→' does not mean the English if-then [Quine] |
22433 | It is important that the quantification over temporal entities is timeless [Quine] |
22437 | Logical languages are rooted in ordinary language, and that connection must be kept [Quine] |
22434 | Reduction to logical forms first simplifies idioms and grammar, then finds a single reading of it [Quine] |
17644 | Metaphysical realism is committed to there being one ultimate true theory [Putnam] |
17648 | It is an illusion to think there could be one good scientific theory of reality [Putnam] |
17643 | Shape is essential relative to 'statue', but not essential relative to 'clay' [Putnam] |
22432 | Normally conditionals have no truth value; it is the consequent which has a conditional truth value [Quine] |
17642 | The old view that sense data are independent of mind is quite dotty [Putnam] |
22430 | If we understand a statement, we know the circumstances of its truth [Quine] |
7667 | There are two sides to men - the pleasantly social, and the violent and creative [Diderot, by Berlin] |
17645 | An alien might think oxygen was the main cause of a forest fire [Putnam] |
13713 | Quine holds time to be 'space-like': past objects are as real as spatially remote ones [Quine, by Sider] |