10 ideas
6782 | Realism is the only philosophy of science that doesn't make the success of science a miracle [Putnam] |
8132 | We now have a much more sophisticated understanding of logical form in language [Burge] |
8203 | All the arithmetical entities can be reduced to classes of integers, and hence to sets [Quine] |
22181 | Putnam says anti-realism is a bad explanation of accurate predictions [Putnam, by Okasha] |
8126 | Anti-individualism says the environment is involved in the individuation of some mental states [Burge] |
8127 | Broad concepts suggest an extension of the mind into the environment (less computer-like) [Burge] |
8129 | Anti-individualism may be incompatible with some sorts of self-knowledge [Burge] |
8131 | Some qualities of experience, like blurred vision, have no function at all [Burge] |
8202 | Meaning is essence divorced from things and wedded to words [Quine] |
8201 | The distinction between meaning and further information is as vague as the essence/accident distinction [Quine] |