15 ideas
21943 | Since Kant, self-criticism has been part of philosophy [Gutting] |
21944 | Structuralism describes human phenomena in terms of unconscious structures [Gutting] |
10825 | The notion of truth is to help us make use of the utterances of others [Field,H] |
10820 | In the early 1930s many philosophers thought truth was not scientific [Field,H] |
13499 | Tarski reduced truth to reference or denotation [Field,H, by Hart,WD] |
10818 | Tarski really explained truth in terms of denoting, predicating and satisfied functions [Field,H] |
10817 | Tarski just reduced truth to some other undefined semantic notions [Field,H] |
8956 | What is a singleton set, if a set is meant to be a collection of objects? [Szabó] |
10819 | Tarski gives us the account of truth needed to build a group of true sentences in a model [Field,H] |
10827 | Model theory is unusual in restricting the range of the quantifiers [Field,H] |
8953 | Abstract entities don't depend on their concrete entities ...but maybe on the totality of concrete things [Szabó] |
8954 | Geometrical circles cannot identify a circular paint patch, presumably because they lack something [Szabó] |
10826 | 'Valence' and 'gene' had to be reduced to show their compatibility with physicalism [Field,H] |
8955 | Abstractions are imperceptible, non-causal, and non-spatiotemporal (the third explaining the others) [Szabó] |
7615 | Field says reference is a causal physical relation between mental states and objects [Field,H, by Putnam] |