7 ideas
16458 | Semantic vagueness involves alternative and equal precisifications of the language [Lewis] |
16641 | Whiteness does not exist, but by it something can exist-as-white [Aquinas] |
10990 | Conditionals are truth-functional, but unassertable in tricky cases? [Grice, by Read] |
22170 | Senses grasp external properties, but the understanding grasps the essential natures of things [Aquinas] |
22169 | Initial universal truths are present within us as potential, to be drawn out by reason [Aquinas] |
22168 | Minds take in a likeness of things, which activates an awaiting potential [Aquinas] |
10991 | Key conversational maxims are 'quality' (assert truth) and 'quantity' (leave nothing out) [Grice, by Read] |