7 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] |
19376 | A machine is best defined by its final cause, which explains the roles of the parts [Leibniz] |
15251 | The attribution of necessity to causation is either primitive animism, or confusion with logical necessity [Ayer] |