16 ideas
8952 | We reach 'reflective equilibrium' when intuitions and theory completely align [Fisher] |
17990 | Instances of minimal truth miss out propositions inexpressible in current English [Hofweber] |
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] |
17988 | Quantification can't all be substitutional; some reference is obviously to objects [Hofweber] |
19494 | Fictionalism allows that simulated beliefs may be tracking real facts [Yablo] |
8946 | We could make our intuitions about heaps precise with a million-valued logic [Fisher] |
17989 | Since properties have properties, there can be a typed or a type-free theory of them [Hofweber] |
8944 | Vagueness can involve components (like baldness), or not (like boredom) [Fisher] |
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] |
19493 | Governing possible worlds theory is the fiction that if something is possible, it happens in a world [Yablo] |
17991 | Holism says language can't be translated; the expressibility hypothesis says everything can [Hofweber] |