Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'The Value of Science', 'The Emperor's New 'Knows'' and 'Demonstratives'

expand these ideas     |    start again     |     specify just one area for these texts

---

6 ideas

13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 6. Contextual Justification / b. Invariantism

12900

How could 'S knows he has hands' not have a fixed content? [Bach]

12901

If contextualism is right, knowledge sentences are baffling out of their context [Bach]

12902

Sceptics aren't changing the meaning of 'know', but claiming knowing is tougher than we think [Bach]

19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 10. Two-Dimensional Semantics

14894

Indexicals have a 'character' (the standing meaning), and a 'content' (truth-conditions for one context) [Kaplan, by Macià/Garcia-Carpentiro]

14700

'Content' gives the standard modal profile, and 'character' gives rules for a context [Kaplan, by Schroeter]

26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 11. Against Laws of Nature

15877

The aim of science is just to create a comprehensive, elegant language to describe brute facts [Poincaré, by Harré]