16 ideas
22438 | Philosophy is largely concerned with finding the minimum that science could get by with [Quine] |
22436 | Logicians don't paraphrase logic into language, because they think in the symbolic language [Quine] |
22431 | Good algorithms and theories need many occurrences of just a few elements [Quine] |
22435 | The logician's '→' does not mean the English if-then [Quine] |
22433 | It is important that the quantification over temporal entities is timeless [Quine] |
22437 | Logical languages are rooted in ordinary language, and that connection must be kept [Quine] |
22434 | Reduction to logical forms first simplifies idioms and grammar, then finds a single reading of it [Quine] |
22142 | In future, only logical limits can be placed on divine omnipotence [Anon (Par), by Boulter] |
22432 | Normally conditionals have no truth value; it is the consequent which has a conditional truth value [Quine] |
16716 | It is heresy to require self-evident foundational principles in order to be certain [Anon (Par)] |
8130 | Qualities of experience are just representational aspects of experience ('Representationalism') [Harman, by Burge] |
22430 | If we understand a statement, we know the circumstances of its truth [Quine] |
1866 | It is heresy to teach that history repeats every 36,000 years [Anon (Par)] |
13713 | Quine holds time to be 'space-like': past objects are as real as spatially remote ones [Quine, by Sider] |
1865 | It is heresy to teach that natural impossibilities cannot even be achieved by God [Anon (Par)] |
1864 | It is heresy to teach that we can know God by his essence in this mortal life [Anon (Par)] |