8 ideas
23367 | Even pointing a finger should only be done for a reason [Epictetus] |
5437 | The claim of hermeneutics to give knowledge through understanding is challenged by positivism [Mautner on Dilthey] |
7332 | There is a huge range of sentences of which we do not know the logical form [Davidson] |
5436 | Natural science seeks explanation; human sciences seek understanding [Dilthey, by Mautner] |
7772 | Compositionality explains how long sentences work, and truth conditions are the main compositional feature [Davidson, by Lycan] |
7327 | Davidson thinks Frege lacks an account of how words create sentence-meaning [Davidson, by Miller,A] |
7769 | You can state truth-conditions for "I am sick now" by relativising it to a speaker at a time [Davidson, by Lycan] |
6179 | Should we assume translation to define truth, or the other way around? [Blackburn on Davidson] |