11 ideas
18270 | Choice suggests that intensions are not needed to ensure classes [Coffa] |
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] |
18263 | The semantic tradition aimed to explain the a priori semantically, not by Kantian intuition [Coffa] |
18272 | Platonism defines the a priori in a way that makes it unknowable [Coffa] |
6894 | Mental terms can be replaced in a sentence by a variable and an existential quantifier [Ramsey] |
18266 | Mathematics generalises by using variables [Coffa] |
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] |
18202 | The concept of a field gradually replaced the substances in explaining relations between charges [Einstein/Infeld] |
18279 | Relativity is as absolutist about space-time as Newton was about space [Coffa] |