11 ideas
6859 | Analytic philosophy has much higher standards of thinking than continental philosophy [Williamson] |
6862 | Fuzzy logic uses a continuum of truth, but it implies contradictions [Williamson] |
6858 | Formal logic struck me as exactly the language I wanted to think in [Williamson] |
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] |
8824 | No one has defended translational phenomenalism since Ayer in 1940 [Ayer, by Kim] |
6860 | How can one discriminate yellow from red, but not the colours in between? [Williamson] |
17371 | Some kinds are very explanatory, but others less so, and some not at all [Devitt] |
15251 | The attribution of necessity to causation is either primitive animism, or confusion with logical necessity [Ayer] |
17372 | The higher categories are not natural kinds, so the Linnaean hierarchy should be given up [Devitt] |
17373 | Species pluralism says there are several good accounts of what a species is [Devitt] |