20 ideas
22438 | Philosophy is largely concerned with finding the minimum that science could get by with [Quine] |
18274 | Analysis complicates a statement, but only as far as the complexity of its meaning [Wittgenstein] |
22436 | Logicians don't paraphrase logic into language, because they think in the symbolic language [Quine] |
22431 | Good algorithms and theories need many occurrences of just a few elements [Quine] |
22435 | The logician's '→' does not mean the English if-then [Quine] |
22433 | It is important that the quantification over temporal entities is timeless [Quine] |
16908 | We can dispense with self-evidence, if language itself prevents logical mistakes [Jeshion on Wittgenstein] |
22437 | Logical languages are rooted in ordinary language, and that connection must be kept [Quine] |
18276 | A statement's logical form derives entirely from its constituents [Wittgenstein] |
22434 | Reduction to logical forms first simplifies idioms and grammar, then finds a single reading of it [Quine] |
6563 | 'And' and 'not' are non-referring terms, which do not represent anything [Wittgenstein, by Fogelin] |
23472 | The sense of propositions relies on the world's basic logical structure [Wittgenstein] |
22432 | Normally conditionals have no truth value; it is the consequent which has a conditional truth value [Quine] |
23500 | My main problem is the order of the world, and whether it is knowable a priori [Wittgenstein] |
22323 | The philosophical I is the metaphysical subject, the limit - not a part of the world [Wittgenstein] |
23481 | Propositions assemble a world experimentally, like the model of a road accident [Wittgenstein] |
22430 | If we understand a statement, we know the circumstances of its truth [Quine] |
22454 | We tolerate inconsistency in ethics but not in other beliefs (which reflect an independent order) [Williams,B, by Foot] |
4678 | Absolute prohibitions are the essence of ethics, and suicide is the most obvious example [Wittgenstein] |
13713 | Quine holds time to be 'space-like': past objects are as real as spatially remote ones [Quine, by Sider] |