19 ideas
14255 | We understand things through their dependency relations [Fine,K] |
14250 | Metaphysics deals with the existence of things and with the nature of things [Fine,K] |
6859 | Analytic philosophy has much higher standards of thinking than continental philosophy [Williamson] |
4262 | If the only aim was consistent beliefs then new evidence and experiments would be irrelevant [Goldman] |
14259 | Maybe two objects might require simultaneous real definitions, as with two simultaneous terms [Fine,K] |
6862 | Fuzzy logic uses a continuum of truth, but it implies contradictions [Williamson] |
6858 | Formal logic struck me as exactly the language I wanted to think in [Williamson] |
14253 | An object's 'being' isn't existence; there's more to an object than existence, and its nature doesn't include existence [Fine,K] |
14261 | There is 'weak' dependence in one definition, and 'strong' dependence in all the definitions [Fine,K] |
14251 | A natural modal account of dependence says x depends on y if y must exist when x does [Fine,K] |
14257 | An object depends on another if the second cannot be eliminated from the first's definition [Fine,K] |
14254 | Dependency is the real counterpart of one term defining another [Fine,K] |
6863 | Close to conceptual boundaries judgement is too unreliable to give knowledge [Williamson] |
14252 | We should understand identity in terms of the propositions it renders true [Fine,K] |
6861 | What sort of logic is needed for vague concepts, and what sort of concept of truth? [Williamson] |
14256 | How do we distinguish basic from derived esssences? [Fine,K] |
14258 | Maybe some things have essential relationships as well as essential properties [Fine,K] |
14260 | An object only essentially has a property if that property follows from every definition of the object [Fine,K] |
6860 | How can one discriminate yellow from red, but not the colours in between? [Williamson] |