20 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] |
8195 | Undecidable statements result from quantifying over infinites, subjunctive conditionals, and the past tense [Dummett] |
8194 | Surely there is no exact single grain that brings a heap into existence [Dummett] |
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] |
8192 | I no longer think what a statement about the past says is just what can justify it [Dummett] |
6863 | Close to conceptual boundaries judgement is too unreliable to give knowledge [Williamson] |
16659 | Relations do not add anything to reality, though they are real aspects of the world [Olivi] |
6861 | What sort of logic is needed for vague concepts, and what sort of concept of truth? [Williamson] |
16673 | Quantity just adds union and location to the extension of parts [Olivi] |
8199 | The existence of a universe without sentience or intelligence is an unintelligible fantasy [Dummett] |
6860 | How can one discriminate yellow from red, but not the colours in between? [Williamson] |
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] |
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] |
16663 | Things are limited by the species to certain modes of being [Olivi] |