29 ideas
7719 | European philosophy consists of a series of footnotes to Plato [Whitehead] |
17713 | After 1903, Husserl avoids metaphysical commitments [Mares] |
8195 | Undecidable statements result from quantifying over infinites, subjunctive conditionals, and the past tense [Dummett] |
10656 | With 'extensive connection', boundary elements are not included in domains [Whitehead, by Varzi] |
8194 | Surely there is no exact single grain that brings a heap into existence [Dummett] |
17715 | The truth of the axioms doesn't matter for pure mathematics, but it does for applied [Mares] |
17716 | Mathematics is relations between properties we abstract from experience [Mares] |
8190 | Intuitionists rely on the proof of mathematical statements, not their truth [Dummett] |
8198 | A 'Cambridge Change' is like saying 'the landscape changes as you travel east' [Dummett] |
15389 | In Whitehead 'processes' consist of events beginning and ending [Whitehead, by Simons] |
8192 | I no longer think what a statement about the past says is just what can justify it [Dummett] |
17703 | Light in straight lines is contingent a priori; stipulated as straight, because they happen to be so [Mares] |
8199 | The existence of a universe without sentience or intelligence is an unintelligible fantasy [Dummett] |
17714 | Aristotelians dislike the idea of a priori judgements from pure reason [Mares] |
17705 | Empiricists say rationalists mistake imaginative powers for modal insights [Mares] |
17700 | The most popular view is that coherent beliefs explain one another [Mares] |
17704 | Operationalism defines concepts by our ways of measuring them [Mares] |
17710 | Aristotelian justification uses concepts abstracted from experience [Mares] |
17706 | The essence of a concept is either its definition or its conceptual relations? [Mares] |
8193 | Verification is not an individual but a collective activity [Dummett] |
8189 | Truth-condition theorists must argue use can only be described by appeal to conditions of truth [Dummett] |
8191 | The truth-conditions theory must get agreement on a conception of truth [Dummett] |
17701 | Possible worlds semantics has a nice compositional account of modal statements [Mares] |
17702 | Unstructured propositions are sets of possible worlds; structured ones have components [Mares] |
15247 | Whitehead held that perception was a necessary feature of all causation [Whitehead, by Harré/Madden] |
16962 | Whitehead replaced points with extended regions [Whitehead, by Quine] |
17708 | Maybe space has points, but processes always need regions with a size [Mares] |
8197 | Maybe past (which affects us) and future (which we can affect) are both real [Dummett] |
8196 | The present cannot exist alone as a mere boundary; past and future truths are rendered meaningless [Dummett] |