10 ideas
22026 | Philosophy is homesickness - the urge to be at home everywhere [Novalis] |
4742 | Correspondence may be one-many or many one, as when either p or q make 'p or q' true [Armstrong] |
9497 | Without modality, Armstrong falls back on fictionalism to support counterfactual laws [Bird on Armstrong] |
15550 | Properties are contingently existing beings with multiple locations in space and time [Armstrong, by Lewis] |
4743 | The truth-maker for a truth must necessitate that truth [Armstrong] |
9329 | Justification is coherence with a background system; if irrefutable, it is knowledge [Lehrer] |
9330 | Generalization seems to be more fundamental to minds than spotting similarities [Lehrer] |
19591 | Desire for perfection is an illness, if it turns against what is imperfect [Novalis] |
9328 | All conscious states can be immediately known when attention is directed to them [Lehrer] |
4798 | In recent writings, Armstrong makes a direct identification of necessitation with causation [Armstrong, by Psillos] |