27 ideas
17651 | Without words or other symbols, we have no world [Goodman] |
14092 | Philosophers are often too fussy about words, dismissing perfectly useful ordinary terms [Rosen] |
14100 | Figuring in the definition of a thing doesn't make it a part of that thing [Rosen] |
17652 | Truth is irrelevant if no statements are involved [Goodman] |
14096 | Explanations fail to be monotonic [Rosen] |
13163 | Circles must be bounded, so cannot be infinite [Leibniz] |
14097 | Things could be true 'in virtue of' others as relations between truths, or between truths and items [Rosen] |
17656 | Being primitive or prior always depends on a constructional system [Goodman] |
17661 | We don't recognise patterns - we invent them [Goodman] |
17659 | Reality is largely a matter of habit [Goodman] |
17657 | We build our world, and ignore anything that won't fit [Goodman] |
14095 | Facts are structures of worldly items, rather like sentences, individuated by their ingredients [Rosen] |
17654 | A world can be full of variety or not, depending on how we sort it [Goodman] |
14093 | An 'intrinsic' property is one that depends on a thing and its parts, and not on its relations [Rosen] |
17653 | Things can only be judged the 'same' by citing some respect of sameness [Goodman] |
14094 | The excellent notion of metaphysical 'necessity' cannot be defined [Rosen] |
14101 | Are necessary truths rooted in essences, or also in basic grounding laws? [Rosen] |
17660 | Discovery is often just finding a fit, like a jigsaw puzzle [Goodman] |
17658 | Users of digital thermometers recognise no temperatures in the gaps [Goodman] |
17650 | We lack frames of reference to transform physics, biology and psychology into one another [Goodman] |
17655 | Grue and green won't be in the same world, as that would block induction entirely [Goodman] |
13162 | Sloth's Syllogism: either it can't happen, or it is inevitable without my effort [Leibniz] |
14099 | 'Bachelor' consists in or reduces to 'unmarried' male, but not the other way around [Rosen] |
17649 | If the world is one it has many aspects, and if there are many worlds they will collect into one [Goodman] |
14098 | An acid is just a proton donor [Rosen] |
19339 | Evil is a negation of good, which arises from non-being [Leibniz] |
13164 | God only made sin possible because a much greater good can be derived from it [Leibniz] |