16 ideas
22104 | Truth is the conformity of being to intellect [Aquinas] |
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] |
9358 | There are several logics, none of which will ever derive falsehoods from truth [Lewis,CI] |
11026 | Classical logic is deliberately extensional, in order to model mathematics [Fitting] |
9357 | Excluded middle is just our preference for a simplified dichotomy in experience [Lewis,CI] |
9364 | Names represent a uniformity in experience, or they name nothing [Lewis,CI] |
11028 | λ-abstraction disambiguates the scope of modal operators [Fitting] |
22103 | Being is basic to thought, and all other concepts are additions to being [Aquinas] |
9362 | Necessary truths are those we will maintain no matter what [Lewis,CI] |
15377 | Definite descriptions pick out different objects in different possible worlds [Fitting] |
9365 | We can maintain a priori principles come what may, but we can also change them [Lewis,CI] |
9361 | We have to separate the mathematical from physical phenomena by abstraction [Lewis,CI] |
9363 | Science seeks classification which will discover laws, essences, and predictions [Lewis,CI] |