13 ideas
13407 | All worthwhile philosophy is synthetic theorizing, evaluated by experience [Papineau] |
2661 | Dialectic is speech cast in the form of logical argument [Cicero] |
2673 | There cannot be more than one truth [Cicero] |
10594 | Henkin semantics is more plausible for plural logic than for second-order logic [Maddy] |
2669 | Dialectic assumes that all statements are either true or false, but self-referential paradoxes are a big problem [Cicero] |
13409 | Our best theories may commit us to mathematical abstracta, but that doesn't justify the commitment [Papineau] |
13406 | A priori knowledge is analytic - the structure of our concepts - and hence unimportant [Papineau] |
2664 | If we have complete healthy senses, what more could the gods give us? [Cicero] |
13408 | Intuition and thought-experiments embody substantial information about the world [Papineau] |
2665 | How can there be a memory of what is false? [Cicero] |
20800 | Every true presentation can have a false one of the same quality [Cicero] |
13410 | Verificationism about concepts means you can't deny a theory, because you can't have the concept [Papineau] |
2672 | Virtues must be very detached, to avoid being motivated by pleasure [Cicero] |