26 ideas
6859 | Analytic philosophy has much higher standards of thinking than continental philosophy [Williamson] |
12596 | Reasoning aims at increasing explanatory coherence [Harman] |
12599 | Reason conservatively: stick to your beliefs, and prefer reasoning that preserves most of them [Harman] |
19426 | 'Nominal' definitions just list distinguishing characteristics [Leibniz] |
6862 | Fuzzy logic uses a continuum of truth, but it implies contradictions [Williamson] |
12595 | We have a theory of logic (implication and inconsistency), but not of inference or reasoning [Harman] |
6858 | Formal logic struck me as exactly the language I wanted to think in [Williamson] |
12597 | I might accept P and Q as likely, but reject P-and-Q as unlikely [Harman] |
12598 | Reality is the overlap of true complete theories [Harman] |
6863 | Close to conceptual boundaries judgement is too unreliable to give knowledge [Williamson] |
6861 | What sort of logic is needed for vague concepts, and what sort of concept of truth? [Williamson] |
19424 | Knowledge needs clarity, distinctness, and adequacy, and it should be intuitive [Leibniz] |
6860 | How can one discriminate yellow from red, but not the colours in between? [Williamson] |
12602 | There is no natural border between inner and outer [Harman] |
12603 | We can only describe mental attitudes in relation to the external world [Harman] |
12601 | The way things look is a relational matter, not an intrinsic matter [Harman] |
19427 | True ideas represent what is possible; false ideas represent contradictions [Leibniz] |
12592 | Concepts in thought have content, but not meaning, which requires communication [Harman] |
12590 | Take meaning to be use in calculation with concepts, rather than in communication [Harman] |
12593 | The use theory attaches meanings to words, not to sentences [Harman] |
12588 | Meaning from use of thoughts, constructed from concepts, which have a role relating to reality [Harman] |
12589 | Some regard conceptual role semantics as an entirely internal matter [Harman] |
12600 | The content of thought is relations, between mental states, things in the world, and contexts [Harman] |
12594 | If one proposition negates the other, which is the negative one? [Harman] |
12591 | Mastery of a language requires thinking, and not just communication [Harman] |
19425 | In the schools the Four Causes are just lumped together in a very obscure way [Leibniz] |