23 ideas
19066 | Philosophy aims to understand the world, through ordinary experience and science [Dummett] |
23657 | The existence of tensed verbs shows that not all truths are necessary truths [Reid] |
19067 | A successful proof requires recognition of truth at every step [Dummett] |
23655 | An ad hominem argument is good, if it is shown that the man's principles are inconsistent [Reid] |
19060 | Truth-tables are dubious in some cases, and may be a bad way to explain connective meaning [Dummett] |
11066 | Deduction is justified by the semantics of its metalanguage [Dummett, by Hanna] |
19058 | Syntactic consequence is positive, for validity; semantic version is negative, with counterexamples [Dummett] |
19063 | Beth trees show semantics for intuitionistic logic, in terms of how truth has been established [Dummett] |
19059 | In standard views you could replace 'true' and 'false' with mere 0 and 1 [Dummett] |
19062 | Classical two-valued semantics implies that meaning is grasped through truth-conditions [Dummett] |
19065 | Soundness and completeness proofs test the theory of meaning, rather than the logic theory [Dummett] |
23659 | If someone denies that he is thinking when he is conscious of it, we can only laugh [Reid] |
23662 | The existence of ideas is no more obvious than the existence of external objects [Reid] |
23661 | We are only aware of other beings through our senses; without that, we are alone in the universe [Reid] |
23654 | In obscure matters the few must lead the many, but the many usually lead in common sense [Reid] |
23660 | The theory of ideas, popular with philosophers, means past existence has to be proved [Reid] |
19061 | An explanation is often a deduction, but that may well beg the question [Dummett] |
23658 | Consciousness is an indefinable and unique operation [Reid] |
5997 | Dicaearchus said soul does not exist, but is just a configuration of the body [Dicaearchus, by Fortenbaugh] |
23656 | The structure of languages reveals a uniformity in basic human opinions [Reid] |
23653 | If you can't distinguish the features of a complex object, your notion of it would be a muddle [Reid] |
19064 | Holism is not a theory of meaning; it is the denial that a theory of meaning is possible [Dummett] |
23663 | There are axioms of taste - such as a general consensus about a beautiful face [Reid] |