8 ideas
| 10838 | To explain a concept, we need its purpose, not just its rules of usage [Dummett] |
| 10837 | It is part of the concept of truth that we aim at making true statements [Dummett] |
| 10840 | We must be able to specify truths in a precise language, like winning moves in a game [Dummett] |
| 19171 | Tarski's truth is like rules for winning games, without saying what 'winning' means [Dummett, by Davidson] |
| 18281 | In mathematics everything is algorithm and nothing is meaning [Wittgenstein] |
| 4577 | There is no necessity higher than natural necessity, and that is just regularity [Quine] |
| 10839 | You can't infer a dog's abstract concepts from its behaviour [Dummett] |
| 6606 | Consider: "Imagine this butterfly exactly as it is, but ugly instead of beautiful" [Wittgenstein] |