8 ideas
3269 | If your life is to be meaningful as part of some large thing, the large thing must be meaningful [Nagel] |
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] |
3270 | Justifications come to an end when we want them to [Nagel] |
22450 | If moral systems can't judge other moral systems, then moral relativism is true [Williams,B, by Foot] |
3268 | If a small brief life is absurd, then so is a long and large one [Nagel] |