15 ideas
23392 | The Dao (Way) first means the road, and comes to mean the right way to live [Norden] |
2945 | Most philosophers start with reality and then examine knowledge; Descartes put the study of knowledge first [Lehrer] |
22438 | Philosophy is largely concerned with finding the minimum that science could get by with [Quine] |
2946 | You cannot demand an analysis of a concept without knowing the purpose of the analysis [Lehrer] |
22436 | Logicians don't paraphrase logic into language, because they think in the symbolic language [Quine] |
23408 | The hermeneutic circle is either within the text, or between text and biased reader [Norden] |
23407 | Heremeneutics is either 'faith' (examining truth) or 'suspicion' (looking for hidden motives) [Norden] |
22431 | Good algorithms and theories need many occurrences of just a few elements [Quine] |
22435 | The logician's '→' does not mean the English if-then [Quine] |
22433 | It is important that the quantification over temporal entities is timeless [Quine] |
22437 | Logical languages are rooted in ordinary language, and that connection must be kept [Quine] |
22434 | Reduction to logical forms first simplifies idioms and grammar, then finds a single reading of it [Quine] |
22432 | Normally conditionals have no truth value; it is the consequent which has a conditional truth value [Quine] |
22430 | If we understand a statement, we know the circumstances of its truth [Quine] |
13713 | Quine holds time to be 'space-like': past objects are as real as spatially remote ones [Quine, by Sider] |