18 ideas
6859 | Analytic philosophy has much higher standards of thinking than continental philosophy [Williamson] |
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] |
6862 | Fuzzy logic uses a continuum of truth, but it implies contradictions [Williamson] |
8945 | Fuzzy logic has many truth values, ranging in fractions from 0 to 1 [Fisher] |
6858 | Formal logic struck me as exactly the language I wanted to think in [Williamson] |
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] |
6863 | Close to conceptual boundaries judgement is too unreliable to give knowledge [Williamson] |
8946 | We could make our intuitions about heaps precise with a million-valued logic [Fisher] |
6861 | What sort of logic is needed for vague concepts, and what sort of concept of truth? [Williamson] |
8944 | Vagueness can involve components (like baldness), or not (like boredom) [Fisher] |
16597 | Quantity is the capacity to be divided [Digby] |
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] |
6860 | How can one discriminate yellow from red, but not the colours in between? [Williamson] |
16731 | Colours arise from the rarity, density and mixture of matter [Digby] |