16 ideas
7548 | Classes, grouped by a convenient property, are logical constructions [Russell] |
14620 | Theories in logic are sentences closed under consequence, but in truth discussions theories have axioms [Fine,K] |
7545 | Visible things are physical and external, but only exist when viewed [Russell] |
14530 | The role of semantic necessity in semantics is like metaphysical necessity in metaphysics [Fine,K, by Hale/Hoffmann,A] |
7553 | Sense-data are purely physical [Russell] |
7549 | If my body literally lost its mind, the object seen when I see a flash would still exist [Russell] |
8130 | Qualities of experience are just representational aspects of experience ('Representationalism') [Harman, by Burge] |
7546 | A man is a succession of momentary men, bound by continuity and causation [Russell] |
7550 | We could probably, in principle, infer minds from brains, and brains from minds [Russell] |
14618 | Semantics is either an assignment of semantic values, or a theory of truth [Fine,K] |
14621 | Semantics is a body of semantic requirements, not semantic truths or assigned values [Fine,K] |
14622 | Referential semantics (unlike Fregeanism) allows objects themselves in to semantic requirements [Fine,K] |
14619 | The Quinean doubt: are semantics and facts separate, and do analytic sentences have no factual part? [Fine,K] |
7547 | Matter requires a division into time-corpuscles as well as space-corpuscles [Russell] |
7551 | Matter is a logical construction [Russell] |
7552 | Six dimensions are needed for a particular, three within its own space, and three to locate that space [Russell] |