14 ideas
| 7085 | The main problem of philosophy is what can and cannot be thought and expressed [Wittgenstein, by Grayling] |
| 18901 | Truthmakers are facts 'of' a domain, not something 'in' the domain [Sommers] |
| 18904 | 'Predicable' terms come in charged pairs, with one the negation of the other [Sommers, by Engelbretsen] |
| 18895 | Logic which maps ordinary reasoning must be transparent, and free of variables [Sommers] |
| 18897 | Predicate logic has to spell out that its identity relation '=' is an equivalent relation [Sommers] |
| 18893 | Translating into quantificational idiom offers no clues as to how ordinary thinkers reason [Sommers] |
| 18903 | Sommers promotes the old idea that negation basically refers to terms [Sommers, by Engelbretsen] |
| 18894 | Predicates form a hierarchy, from the most general, down to names at the bottom [Sommers] |
| 23463 | Atomic facts correspond to true elementary propositions [Wittgenstein] |
| 18900 | Unfortunately for realists, modern logic cannot say that some fact exists [Sommers] |
| 16669 | Everything that exists is either a being, or some mode of a being [Malebranche] |
| 18898 | In standard logic, names are the only way to refer [Sommers] |
| 23490 | A thought is mental constituents that relate to reality as words do [Wittgenstein] |
| 12726 | In a true cause we see a necessary connection [Malebranche] |