24 ideas
9108 | From an impossibility anything follows [William of Ockham] |
9107 | A proposition is true if its subject and predicate stand for the same thing [William of Ockham] |
16300 | Ockham had an early axiomatic account of truth [William of Ockham, by Halbach] |
8195 | Undecidable statements result from quantifying over infinites, subjunctive conditionals, and the past tense [Dummett] |
9106 | The word 'every' only signifies when added to a term such as 'man', referring to all men [William of Ockham] |
8194 | Surely there is no exact single grain that brings a heap into existence [Dummett] |
9113 | Just as unity is not a property of a single thing, so numbers are not properties of many things [William of Ockham] |
8190 | Intuitionists rely on the proof of mathematical statements, not their truth [Dummett] |
9110 | The words 'thing' and 'to be' assert the same idea, as a noun and as a verb [William of Ockham] |
8198 | A 'Cambridge Change' is like saying 'the landscape changes as you travel east' [Dummett] |
8192 | I no longer think what a statement about the past says is just what can justify it [Dummett] |
15388 | Universals are single things, and only universal in what they signify [William of Ockham] |
14590 | If we accept scattered objects such as archipelagos, why not think of cars that way? [Hawthorne] |
9109 | If essence and existence were two things, one could exist without the other, which is impossible [William of Ockham] |
14591 | Four-dimensionalists say instantaneous objects are more fundamental than long-lived ones [Hawthorne] |
14589 | A modal can reverse meaning if the context is seen differently, so maybe context is all? [Hawthorne] |
8199 | The existence of a universe without sentience or intelligence is an unintelligible fantasy [Dummett] |
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] |
9105 | Some concepts for propositions exist only in the mind, and in no language [William of Ockham] |
14588 | Modern metaphysicians tend to think space-time points are more fundamental than space-time regions [Hawthorne] |
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] |