8 ideas
13768 | Validity can preserve certainty in mathematics, but conditionals about contingents are another matter [Edgington] |
13770 | There are many different conditional mental states, and different conditional speech acts [Edgington] |
13764 | Are conditionals truth-functional - do the truth values of A and B determine the truth value of 'If A, B'? [Edgington] |
13765 | 'If A,B' must entail ¬(A & ¬B); otherwise we could have A true, B false, and If A,B true, invalidating modus ponens [Edgington] |
8824 | No one has defended translational phenomenalism since Ayer in 1940 [Ayer, by Kim] |
10356 | Relativism can be seen as about the rationality of different cultural traditions [MacIntyre, by Kusch] |
23080 | Liberals debate how conservative or radical to be, but don't question their basics [MacIntyre] |
15251 | The attribution of necessity to causation is either primitive animism, or confusion with logical necessity [Ayer] |