9 ideas
5035 | The two basics of reasoning are contradiction and sufficient reason [Leibniz] |
1556 | By nature people are close to one another, but culture drives them apart [Hippias] |
5038 | Assume that mind and body follow their own laws, but God has harmonised them [Leibniz] |
6387 | A minimum requirement for a theory of meaning is that it include an account of truth [Davidson] |
6391 | A theory of truth tells us how communication by language is possible [Davidson] |
6388 | Is reference the key place where language and the world meet? [Davidson] |
6390 | With a holistic approach, we can give up reference in empirical theories of language [Davidson] |
6389 | To explain the reference of a name, you must explain its sentence-role, so reference can't be defined nonlinguistically [Davidson] |
5037 | God doesn't decide that Adam will sin, but that sinful Adam's existence is to be preferred [Leibniz] |