15 ideas
6859 | Analytic philosophy has much higher standards of thinking than continental philosophy [Williamson] |
15663 | Adorno and Horkheimer subjected the Enlightenment to 'critical theory' analysis [Adorno/Horkheimer, by Finlayson] |
6862 | Fuzzy logic uses a continuum of truth, but it implies contradictions [Williamson] |
15375 | If terms change their designations in different states, they are functions from states to objects [Fitting] |
15376 | Intensional logic adds a second type of quantification, over intensional objects, or individual concepts [Fitting] |
15378 | Awareness logic adds the restriction of an awareness function to epistemic logic [Fitting] |
15379 | Justication logics make explicit the reasons for mathematical truth in proofs [Fitting] |
6858 | Formal logic struck me as exactly the language I wanted to think in [Williamson] |
11026 | Classical logic is deliberately extensional, in order to model mathematics [Fitting] |
11028 | λ-abstraction disambiguates the scope of modal operators [Fitting] |
6863 | Close to conceptual boundaries judgement is too unreliable to give knowledge [Williamson] |
6861 | What sort of logic is needed for vague concepts, and what sort of concept of truth? [Williamson] |
15377 | Definite descriptions pick out different objects in different possible worlds [Fitting] |
6860 | How can one discriminate yellow from red, but not the colours in between? [Williamson] |
20572 | De Sade said it was impossible to rationally argue against murder [Adorno/Horkheimer] |