25 ideas
| 17651 | Without words or other symbols, we have no world [Goodman] |
| 2661 | Dialectic is speech cast in the form of logical argument [Cicero] |
| 2673 | There cannot be more than one truth [Cicero] |
| 17652 | Truth is irrelevant if no statements are involved [Goodman] |
| 12219 | Whether a modal claim is true depends on how the object is described [Quine, by Fine,K] |
| 2669 | Dialectic assumes that all statements are either true or false, but self-referential paradoxes are a big problem [Cicero] |
| 10922 | Objects are the values of variables, so a referentially opaque context cannot be quantified into [Quine] |
| 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] |
| 17654 | A world can be full of variety or not, depending on how we sort it [Goodman] |
| 10923 | Aristotelian essentialism says a thing has some necessary and some non-necessary properties [Quine] |
| 17653 | Things can only be judged the 'same' by citing some respect of sameness [Goodman] |
| 10921 | Necessity can attach to statement-names, to statements, and to open sentences [Quine] |
| 10924 | Necessity is in the way in which we say things, and not things themselves [Quine] |
| 2664 | If we have complete healthy senses, what more could the gods give us? [Cicero] |
| 2665 | How can there be a memory of what is false? [Cicero] |
| 17660 | Discovery is often just finding a fit, like a jigsaw puzzle [Goodman] |
| 20800 | Every true presentation can have a false one of the same quality [Cicero] |
| 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] |
| 2672 | Virtues must be very detached, to avoid being motivated by pleasure [Cicero] |
| 17649 | If the world is one it has many aspects, and if there are many worlds they will collect into one [Goodman] |