19 ideas
8877 | We can't attain a coherent system by lopping off any beliefs that won't fit [Sosa] |
21642 | If quantification is all substitutional, there is no ontology [Quine] |
8884 | The phenomenal concept of an eleven-dot pattern does not include the concept of eleven [Sosa] |
1633 | Absolute ontological questions are meaningless, because the answers are circular definitions [Quine] |
9052 | Vague predicates lack application; there are no borderline cases; vague F is not F [Unger, by Keefe/Smith] |
18964 | Ontology is relative to both a background theory and a translation manual [Quine] |
16070 | There are no objects with proper parts; there are only mereological simples [Unger, by Wasserman] |
18965 | We know what things are by distinguishing them, so identity is part of ontology [Quine] |
8878 | It is acceptable to say a supermarket door 'knows' someone is approaching [Sosa] |
8880 | In reducing arithmetic to self-evident logic, logicism is in sympathy with rationalism [Sosa] |
8881 | Most of our knowledge has insufficient sensory support [Sosa] |
8882 | Perception may involve thin indexical concepts, or thicker perceptual concepts [Sosa] |
8883 | Do beliefs only become foundationally justified if we fully attend to features of our experience? [Sosa] |
8885 | Some features of a thought are known directly, but others must be inferred [Sosa] |
8876 | Much propositional knowledge cannot be formulated, as in recognising a face [Sosa] |
8879 | Fully comprehensive beliefs may not be knowledge [Sosa] |
1634 | Two things are relative - the background theory, and translating the object theory into the background theory [Quine] |
8470 | Reference is inscrutable, because we cannot choose between theories of numbers [Quine, by Orenstein] |
18963 | Indeterminacy translating 'rabbit' depends on translating individuation terms [Quine] |