7 ideas
13407 | All worthwhile philosophy is synthetic theorizing, evaluated by experience [Papineau] |
16005 | I recognise knowledge, but it is the truth by which I can live and die that really matters [Kierkegaard] |
13409 | Our best theories may commit us to mathematical abstracta, but that doesn't justify the commitment [Papineau] |
13406 | A priori knowledge is analytic - the structure of our concepts - and hence unimportant [Papineau] |
13408 | Intuition and thought-experiments embody substantial information about the world [Papineau] |
13410 | Verificationism about concepts means you can't deny a theory, because you can't have the concept [Papineau] |
14014 | Space alone, and time alone, will fade away, and only their union has an independent reality [Minkowski] |