10 ideas
6855 | Interesting philosophers hardly every give you explicitly valid arguments [Martin,M] |
21699 | Russell offered a paraphrase of definite description, to avoid the commitment to objects [Quine] |
6856 | Valid arguments can be rejected by challenging the premises or presuppositions [Martin,M] |
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] |
6857 | An error theory of perception says our experience is not as it seems to be [Martin,M] |
21700 | Taking sentences as the unit of meaning makes useful paraphrasing possible [Quine] |
21701 | Knowing a word is knowing the meanings of sentences which contain it [Quine] |