11 ideas
22026 | Philosophy is homesickness - the urge to be at home everywhere [Novalis] |
5831 | The new view is that "water" is a name, and has no definition [Schwartz,SP] |
18073 | Dummett says classical logic rests on meaning as truth, while intuitionist logic rests on assertability [Dummett, by Kitcher] |
5829 | We refer to Thales successfully by name, even if all descriptions of him are false [Schwartz,SP] |
5830 | The traditional theory of names says some of the descriptions must be correct [Schwartz,SP] |
19057 | Classical quantification is an infinite conjunction or disjunction - but you may not know all the instances [Dummett] |
19591 | Desire for perfection is an illness, if it turns against what is imperfect [Novalis] |
5826 | The intension of "lemon" is the conjunction of properties associated with it [Schwartz,SP] |
19055 | Stating a sentence's truth-conditions is just paraphrasing the sentence [Dummett] |
19056 | If a sentence is effectively undecidable, we can never know its truth conditions [Dummett] |
19054 | Meaning as use puts use beyond criticism, and needs a holistic view of language [Dummett] |