8 ideas
| 10838 | To explain a concept, we need its purpose, not just its rules of usage [Dummett] |
| 10837 | It is part of the concept of truth that we aim at making true statements [Dummett] |
| 10840 | We must be able to specify truths in a precise language, like winning moves in a game [Dummett] |
| 19171 | Tarski's truth is like rules for winning games, without saying what 'winning' means [Dummett, by Davidson] |
| 8978 | Events are made of other things, and are not fundamental to ontology [Bennett] |
| 10839 | You can't infer a dog's abstract concepts from its behaviour [Dummett] |
| 10364 | Facts are about the world, not in it, so they can't cause anything [Bennett] |
| 19414 | Men are related to animals, which are related to plants, then to fossils, and then to the apparently inert [Leibniz] |