9 ideas
10528 | Definitions concern how we should speak, not how things are [Fine,K] |
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] |
8724 | The meaning of 'know' does not change from courtroom to living room [Unger] |
7458 | The reliability of witnesses depends on whether they benefit from their observations [Laplace, by Hacking] |
8722 | No one knows anything, and no one is ever justified or reasonable [Unger] |
8723 | An evil scientist may give you a momentary life, with totally false memories [Unger] |
3441 | If a supreme intellect knew all atoms and movements, it could know all of the past and the future [Laplace] |
10527 | An abstraction principle should not 'inflate', producing more abstractions than objects [Fine,K] |