18 ideas
| 19066 | Philosophy aims to understand the world, through ordinary experience and science [Dummett] |
| 18261 | A simplification which is complete constitutes a definition [Kant] |
| 19067 | A successful proof requires recognition of truth at every step [Dummett] |
| 19060 | Truth-tables are dubious in some cases, and may be a bad way to explain connective meaning [Dummett] |
| 11066 | Deduction is justified by the semantics of its metalanguage [Dummett, by Hanna] |
| 22275 | Logic gives us the necessary rules which show us how we ought to think [Kant] |
| 19058 | Syntactic consequence is positive, for validity; semantic version is negative, with counterexamples [Dummett] |
| 19063 | Beth trees show semantics for intuitionistic logic, in terms of how truth has been established [Dummett] |
| 19059 | In standard views you could replace 'true' and 'false' with mere 0 and 1 [Dummett] |
| 19062 | Classical two-valued semantics implies that meaning is grasped through truth-conditions [Dummett] |
| 19065 | Soundness and completeness proofs test the theory of meaning, rather than the logic theory [Dummett] |
| 8830 | A belief can be justified when the person has forgotten the evidence for it [Goldman] |
| 18260 | If we knew what we know, we would be astonished [Kant] |
| 8832 | If justified beliefs are well-formed beliefs, then animals and young children have them [Goldman] |
| 8829 | Justification depends on the reliability of its cause, where reliable processes tend to produce truth [Goldman] |
| 19061 | An explanation is often a deduction, but that may well beg the question [Dummett] |
| 8831 | Introspection is really retrospection; my pain is justified by a brief causal history [Goldman] |
| 19064 | Holism is not a theory of meaning; it is the denial that a theory of meaning is possible [Dummett] |