22 ideas
17713 | After 1903, Husserl avoids metaphysical commitments [Mares] |
8868 | Objective truth arises from interpersonal communication [Davidson] |
17715 | The truth of the axioms doesn't matter for pure mathematics, but it does for applied [Mares] |
17716 | Mathematics is relations between properties we abstract from experience [Mares] |
14617 | Predicates can't apply to what doesn't exist [Stalnaker] |
17703 | Light in straight lines is contingent a priori; stipulated as straight, because they happen to be so [Mares] |
8867 | A belief requires understanding the distinctions of true-and-false, and appearance-and-reality [Davidson] |
17714 | Aristotelians dislike the idea of a priori judgements from pure reason [Mares] |
17705 | Empiricists say rationalists mistake imaginative powers for modal insights [Mares] |
17700 | The most popular view is that coherent beliefs explain one another [Mares] |
10347 | Objectivity is intersubjectivity [Davidson] |
17704 | Operationalism defines concepts by our ways of measuring them [Mares] |
8866 | If we know other minds through behaviour, but not our own, we should assume they aren't like me [Davidson] |
10346 | Knowing other minds rests on knowing both one's own mind and the external world [Davidson, by Dummett] |
17710 | Aristotelian justification uses concepts abstracted from experience [Mares] |
17706 | The essence of a concept is either its definition or its conceptual relations? [Mares] |
17701 | Possible worlds semantics has a nice compositional account of modal statements [Mares] |
17702 | Unstructured propositions are sets of possible worlds; structured ones have components [Mares] |
14616 | A 'Russellian proposition' is an ordered sequence of individual, properties and relations [Stalnaker] |
8870 | Content of thought is established through communication, so knowledge needs other minds [Davidson] |
8869 | The principle of charity attributes largely consistent logic and largely true beliefs to speakers [Davidson] |
17708 | Maybe space has points, but processes always need regions with a size [Mares] |