7 ideas
21697 | The Struthionic Fallacy is that of burying one's head in the sand [Quine] |
21698 | All relations, apart from ancestrals, can be reduced to simpler logic [Quine] |
9935 | Mathematical truth is always compromising between ordinary language and sensible epistemology [Benacerraf] |
17927 | Realists have semantics without epistemology, anti-realists epistemology but bad semantics [Benacerraf, by Colyvan] |
9936 | The platonist view of mathematics doesn't fit our epistemology very well [Benacerraf] |
21696 | Nominalism rejects both attributes and classes (where extensionalism accepts the classes) [Quine] |
18284 | Particulars can be verified or falsified, but general statements can only be falsified (conclusively) [Popper] |