21 ideas
5182 | Claims about 'the Absolute' are not even verifiable in principle [Ayer on Bradley] |
6864 | Metaphysics is finding bad reasons for instinctive beliefs [Bradley] |
23548 | Indeterminacy is in conflict with classical logic [Fine,K] |
10999 | Names need a means of reidentifying their referents [Bradley, by Read] |
23539 | Classical semantics has referents for names, extensions for predicates, and T or F for sentences [Fine,K] |
23544 | Local indeterminacy concerns a single object, and global indeterminacy covers a range [Fine,K] |
23540 | Conjoining two indefinites by related sentences seems to produce a contradiction [Fine,K] |
23546 | Standardly vagueness involves borderline cases, and a higher standpoint from which they can be seen [Fine,K] |
23542 | Identifying vagueness with ignorance is the common mistake of confusing symptoms with cause [Fine,K] |
23541 | Supervaluation can give no answer to 'who is the last bald man' [Fine,K] |
6422 | Internal relations are said to be intrinsic properties of two terms, and of the whole they compose [Bradley, by Russell] |
7966 | Relations must be linked to their qualities, but that implies an infinite regress of relations [Bradley] |
23545 | We do not have an intelligible concept of a borderline case [Fine,K] |
23888 | Knowledge is beyond question, as an unavoidable component of thinking [Weil] |
6404 | British Idealists said reality is a single Mind which experiences itself [Bradley, by Grayling] |
22299 | Bradley's objective idealism accepts reality (the Absolute), but says we can't fully describe it [Bradley, by Potter] |
21343 | Qualities and relations are mere appearance; the Absolute is a single undifferentiated substance [Bradley, by Heil] |
23547 | It seems absurd that there is no identity of any kind between two objects which involve survival [Fine,K] |
23887 | Art (like philosophy) establishes a relation between world and self, and between oneself and others [Weil] |
6406 | Reality is one, because plurality implies relations, and they assert a superior unity [Bradley] |
23543 | We identify laws with regularities because we mistakenly identify causes with their symptoms [Fine,K] |