18 ideas
8996 | If if time is money then if time is not money then time is money then if if if time is not money... [Quine] |
8995 | Definition by words is determinate but relative; fixing contexts could make it absolute [Quine] |
10882 | Predicative definitions only refer to entities outside the defined collection [Horsten] |
10064 | Quine quickly dismisses If-thenism [Quine, by Musgrave] |
20296 | Logic needs general conventions, but that needs logic to apply them to individual cases [Quine, by Rey] |
8998 | Claims that logic and mathematics are conventional are either empty, uninteresting, or false [Quine] |
8999 | Logic isn't conventional, because logic is needed to infer logic from conventions [Quine] |
9000 | If a convention cannot be communicated until after its adoption, what is its role? [Quine] |
10884 | A theory is 'categorical' if it has just one model up to isomorphism [Horsten] |
8994 | If analytic geometry identifies figures with arithmetical relations, logicism can include geometry [Quine] |
10885 | Computer proofs don't provide explanations [Horsten] |
8997 | There are four different possible conventional accounts of geometry [Quine] |
10881 | The concept of 'ordinal number' is set-theoretic, not arithmetical [Horsten] |
8993 | If mathematics follows from definitions, then it is conventional, and part of logic [Quine] |
15797 | All structures are dispositional, objects are dispositions sets, and events manifest dispositions [Fetzer] |
15800 | All events and objects are dispositional, and hence all structural properties are dispositional [Fetzer] |
15798 | Kinds are arrangements of dispositions [Fetzer] |
15799 | Lawlike sentences are general attributions of disposition to all members of some class [Fetzer] |