14 ideas
8952 | We reach 'reflective equilibrium' when intuitions and theory completely align [Fisher] |
8943 | Three-valued logic says excluded middle and non-contradition are not tautologies [Fisher] |
8945 | Fuzzy logic has many truth values, ranging in fractions from 0 to 1 [Fisher] |
8951 | Classical logic is: excluded middle, non-contradiction, contradictions imply all, disjunctive syllogism [Fisher] |
8950 | Logic formalizes how we should reason, but it shouldn't determine whether we are realists [Fisher] |
8946 | We could make our intuitions about heaps precise with a million-valued logic [Fisher] |
12354 | A 'categorial' property is had by virtue of being or having an item from a category [Wedin] |
15035 | If universals are not separate, we can isolate them by abstraction [Boethius, by Panaccio] |
12358 | Substance is a principle and a kind of cause [Wedin] |
8944 | Vagueness can involve components (like baldness), or not (like boredom) [Fisher] |
12346 | Form explains why some matter is of a certain kind, and that is explanatory bedrock [Wedin] |
8941 | We can't explain 'possibility' in terms of 'possible' worlds [Fisher] |
8947 | If all truths are implied by a falsehood, then not-p might imply both q and not-q [Fisher] |
8949 | In relevance logic, conditionals help information to flow from antecedent to consequent [Fisher] |