22 ideas
17713 | After 1903, Husserl avoids metaphysical commitments [Mares] |
17715 | The truth of the axioms doesn't matter for pure mathematics, but it does for applied [Mares] |
17716 | Mathematics is relations between properties we abstract from experience [Mares] |
10993 | Ramsey's Test: believe the consequent if you believe the antecedent [Ramsey, by Read] |
14279 | Asking 'If p, will q?' when p is uncertain, then first add p hypothetically to your knowledge [Ramsey] |
17703 | Light in straight lines is contingent a priori; stipulated as straight, because they happen to be so [Mares] |
18969 | How do you distinguish three beliefs from four beliefs or two beliefs? [Quine] |
17714 | Aristotelians dislike the idea of a priori judgements from pure reason [Mares] |
17705 | Empiricists say rationalists mistake imaginative powers for modal insights [Mares] |
17700 | The most popular view is that coherent beliefs explain one another [Mares] |
17704 | Operationalism defines concepts by our ways of measuring them [Mares] |
6894 | Mental terms can be replaced in a sentence by a variable and an existential quantifier [Ramsey] |
17710 | Aristotelian justification uses concepts abstracted from experience [Mares] |
17706 | The essence of a concept is either its definition or its conceptual relations? [Mares] |
17701 | Possible worlds semantics has a nice compositional account of modal statements [Mares] |
18967 | A 'proposition' is said to be the timeless cognitive part of the meaning of a sentence [Quine] |
17702 | Unstructured propositions are sets of possible worlds; structured ones have components [Mares] |
18968 | The problem with propositions is their individuation. When do two sentences express one proposition? [Quine] |
9418 | All knowledge needs systematizing, and the axioms would be the laws of nature [Ramsey] |
9420 | Causal laws result from the simplest axioms of a complete deductive system [Ramsey] |
18970 | The concept of a 'point' makes no sense without the idea of absolute position [Quine] |
17708 | Maybe space has points, but processes always need regions with a size [Mares] |