11 ideas
13407 | All worthwhile philosophy is synthetic theorizing, evaluated by experience [Papineau] |
16489 | Is it possible to state every possible truth about the whole course of nature without using 'not'? [Russell] |
13409 | Our best theories may commit us to mathematical abstracta, but that doesn't justify the commitment [Papineau] |
16490 | Some facts about experience feel like logical necessities [Russell] |
13406 | A priori knowledge is analytic - the structure of our concepts - and hence unimportant [Papineau] |
16488 | It is hard to explain how a sentence like 'it is not raining' can be found true by observation [Russell] |
13408 | Intuition and thought-experiments embody substantial information about the world [Papineau] |
13410 | Verificationism about concepts means you can't deny a theory, because you can't have the concept [Papineau] |
16491 | If we define 'this is not blue' as disbelief in 'this is blue', we eliminate 'not' as an ingredient of facts [Russell] |
7903 | The six perfections are giving, morality, patience, vigour, meditation, and wisdom [Nagarjuna] |
4786 | Russell's 'at-at' theory says motion is to be at the intervening points at the intervening instants [Russell, by Psillos] |