13 ideas
6710 | You can only define a statement that something is 'true' by referring to its functional possibilities [James] |
17325 | Truth-maker theory can't cope with non-causal dependence [Liggins] |
17318 | Truthmakers for existence is fine; otherwise maybe restrict it to synthetic truths? [Liggins] |
22305 | If the hypothesis of God is widely successful, it is true [James] |
15938 | Platonists ruin infinity, which is precisely a growing structure which is never completed [Dummett] |
15939 | For intuitionists it is constructed proofs (which take time) which make statements true [Dummett] |
17320 | Either p is true or not-p is true, so something is true, so something exists [Liggins] |
17326 | The dependence of {Socrates} on Socrates involves a set and a philosopher, not facts [Liggins] |
17327 | Non-causal dependence is at present only dimly understood [Liggins] |
17322 | Necessities supervene on everything, but don't depend on everything [Liggins] |
17324 | 'Because' can signal an inference rather than an explanation [Liggins] |
17321 | Value, constitution and realisation are non-causal dependences that explain [Liggins] |
17323 | If explanations track dependence, then 'determinative' explanations seem to exist [Liggins] |