15 ideas
8996 | If if time is money then if time is not money then time is money then if if if time is not money... [Quine] |
14779 | I reason in order to avoid disappointment and surprise [Peirce] |
8995 | Definition by words is determinate but relative; fixing contexts could make it absolute [Quine] |
14777 | That a judgement is true and that we judge it true are quite different things [Peirce] |
14780 | Only study logic if you think your own reasoning is deficient [Peirce] |
10064 | Quine quickly dismisses If-thenism [Quine, by Musgrave] |
20296 | Logic needs general conventions, but that needs logic to apply them to individual cases [Quine, by Rey] |
8998 | Claims that logic and mathematics are conventional are either empty, uninteresting, or false [Quine] |
8999 | Logic isn't conventional, because logic is needed to infer logic from conventions [Quine] |
9000 | If a convention cannot be communicated until after its adoption, what is its role? [Quine] |
8994 | If analytic geometry identifies figures with arithmetical relations, logicism can include geometry [Quine] |
8997 | There are four different possible conventional accounts of geometry [Quine] |
8993 | If mathematics follows from definitions, then it is conventional, and part of logic [Quine] |
14778 | Facts are hard unmoved things, unaffected by what people may think of them [Peirce] |
14014 | Space alone, and time alone, will fade away, and only their union has an independent reality [Minkowski] |