10 ideas
10838 | To explain a concept, we need its purpose, not just its rules of usage [Dummett] |
10528 | Definitions concern how we should speak, not how things are [Fine,K] |
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] |
10529 | If Hume's Principle can define numbers, we needn't worry about its truth [Fine,K] |
10530 | Hume's Principle is either adequate for number but fails to define properly, or vice versa [Fine,K] |
10839 | You can't infer a dog's abstract concepts from its behaviour [Dummett] |
10527 | An abstraction principle should not 'inflate', producing more abstractions than objects [Fine,K] |
6316 | We translate in a way that makes the largest possible number of statements true [Wilson,NL] |