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] |
6343 | For Russell, both propositions and facts are arrangements of objects, so obviously they correspond [Horwich on Russell] |
19171 | Tarski's truth is like rules for winning games, without saying what 'winning' means [Dummett, by Davidson] |
527 | Everything exists which anyone perceives [Metrodorus of Chios] |
10839 | You can't infer a dog's abstract concepts from its behaviour [Dummett] |
7534 | In 1906, Russell decided that propositions did not, after all, exist [Russell, by Monk] |