13 ideas
23449 | Interpreting a text is representing it as making sense [Morris,M] |
10247 | We have no adequate logic at the moment, so mathematicians must create one [Veblen] |
23484 | Bipolarity adds to Bivalence the capacity for both truth values [Morris,M] |
23494 | Conjunctive and disjunctive quantifiers are too specific, and are confined to the finite [Morris,M] |
23460 | To count, we must distinguish things, and have a series with successors in it [Morris,M] |
23451 | Counting needs to distinguish things, and also needs the concept of a successor in a series [Morris,M] |
23452 | Discriminating things for counting implies concepts of identity and distinctness [Morris,M] |
12154 | Are 'word token' and 'word type' different sorts of countable objects, or two ways of counting? [Geach, by Perry] |
8969 | We should abandon absolute identity, confining it to within some category [Geach, by Hawthorne] |
16075 | Denial of absolute identity has drastic implications for logic, semantics and set theory [Wasserman on Geach] |
12152 | Identity is relative. One must not say things are 'the same', but 'the same A as' [Geach] |
16073 | Leibniz's Law is incomplete, since it includes a non-relativized identity predicate [Geach, by Wasserman] |
23491 | There must exist a general form of propositions, which are predictabe. It is: such and such is the case [Morris,M] |