9 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] |
10990 | Conditionals are truth-functional, but unassertable in tricky cases? [Grice, by Read] |
9074 | Abstraction cannot produce the concept of a 'game', as there is no one common feature [Barnes,J] |
9073 | Abstraction from an ambiguous concept like 'mole' will define them as the same [Barnes,J] |
9072 | Defining concepts by abstractions will collect together far too many attributes from entities [Barnes,J] |
10991 | Key conversational maxims are 'quality' (assert truth) and 'quantity' (leave nothing out) [Grice, by Read] |