27 ideas
9108 | From an impossibility anything follows [William of Ockham] |
22285 | Impredicative definitions are circular, but fine for picking out, rather than creating something [Potter] |
22301 | The Identity Theory says a proposition is true if it coincides with what makes it true [Potter] |
9107 | A proposition is true if its subject and predicate stand for the same thing [William of Ockham] |
22324 | It has been unfortunate that externalism about truth is equated with correspondence [Potter] |
16300 | Ockham had an early axiomatic account of truth [William of Ockham, by Halbach] |
22279 | Frege's sign |--- meant judgements, but the modern |- turnstile means inference, with intecedents [Potter] |
22291 | Deductivism can't explain how the world supports unconditional conclusions [Potter] |
9106 | The word 'every' only signifies when added to a term such as 'man', referring to all men [William of Ockham] |
22295 | Modern logical truths are true under all interpretations of the non-logical words [Potter] |
9113 | Just as unity is not a property of a single thing, so numbers are not properties of many things [William of Ockham] |
22310 | The formalist defence against Gödel is to reject his metalinguistic concept of truth [Potter] |
22298 | Why is fictional arithmetic applicable to the real world? [Potter] |
21982 | I only wish I had such eyes as to see Nobody! It's as much as I can do to see real people. [Carroll,L] |
9110 | The words 'thing' and 'to be' assert the same idea, as a noun and as a verb [William of Ockham] |
22287 | If 'concrete' is the negative of 'abstract', that means desires and hallucinations are concrete [Potter] |
22284 | 'Greater than', which is the ancestral of 'successor', strictly orders the natural numbers [Potter] |
15388 | Universals are single things, and only universal in what they signify [William of Ockham] |
9109 | If essence and existence were two things, one could exist without the other, which is impossible [William of Ockham] |
22281 | A material conditional cannot capture counterfactual reasoning [Potter] |
22327 | Knowledge from a drunken schoolteacher is from a reliable and unreliable process [Potter] |
22273 | Traditionally there are twelve categories of judgement, in groups of three [Potter] |
22290 | The phrase 'the concept "horse"' can't refer to a concept, because it is saturated [Potter] |
22283 | Compositionality should rely on the parsing tree, which may contain more than sentence components [Potter] |
22282 | 'Direct compositonality' says the components wholly explain a sentence meaning [Potter] |
22296 | Compositionality is more welcome in logic than in linguistics (which is more contextual) [Potter] |
9105 | Some concepts for propositions exist only in the mind, and in no language [William of Ockham] |