12 ideas
22026 | Philosophy is homesickness - the urge to be at home everywhere [Novalis] |
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] |
18900 | Unfortunately for realists, modern logic cannot say that some fact exists [Sommers] |
19591 | Desire for perfection is an illness, if it turns against what is imperfect [Novalis] |
18898 | In standard logic, names are the only way to refer [Sommers] |
5064 | Rights are moral significance, or liberty, or right not to be restrained, or entitlement [Mawson] |