23 ideas
23548 | Indeterminacy is in conflict with classical logic [Fine,K] |
23539 | Classical semantics has referents for names, extensions for predicates, and T or F for sentences [Fine,K] |
5311 | If observation goes up a level, we expect the laws of the lower level to remain in force [Wilson,EO] |
23544 | Local indeterminacy concerns a single object, and global indeterminacy covers a range [Fine,K] |
23540 | Conjoining two indefinites by related sentences seems to produce a contradiction [Fine,K] |
23546 | Standardly vagueness involves borderline cases, and a higher standpoint from which they can be seen [Fine,K] |
23542 | Identifying vagueness with ignorance is the common mistake of confusing symptoms with cause [Fine,K] |
23541 | Supervaluation can give no answer to 'who is the last bald man' [Fine,K] |
5312 | A child first sees objects as distinct, and later as members of groups [Wilson,EO] |
23545 | We do not have an intelligible concept of a borderline case [Fine,K] |
5309 | Beliefs are really enabling mechanisms for survival [Wilson,EO] |
23547 | It seems absurd that there is no identity of any kind between two objects which involve survival [Fine,K] |
5310 | Philosophers study the consequences of ethics instead of its origins [Wilson,EO] |
7667 | There are two sides to men - the pleasantly social, and the violent and creative [Diderot, by Berlin] |
5313 | The rules of human decision-making converge and overlap in a 'human nature' [Wilson,EO] |
5316 | We undermine altruism by rewarding it, but we reward it to encourage it [Wilson,EO] |
5318 | Pure hard-core altruism based on kin selection is the enemy of civilisation [Wilson,EO] |
5317 | The actor is most convincing who believes that his performance is real [Wilson,EO] |
5308 | The only human purpose is that created by our genetic history [Wilson,EO] |
23543 | We identify laws with regularities because we mistakenly identify causes with their symptoms [Fine,K] |
5314 | Cultural evolution is Lamarckian and fast, biological evolution is Darwinian and slow [Wilson,EO] |
5315 | Over 99 percent of human evolution has been in the hunter-gatherer phase [Wilson,EO] |
5320 | It is estimated that mankind has produced 100,000 religions [Wilson,EO] |