19 ideas
11257 | The Pythagoreans were the first to offer definitions [Politis, by Politis] |
10825 | The notion of truth is to help us make use of the utterances of others [Field,H] |
11235 | 'True of' is applicable to things, while 'true' is applicable to words [Politis] |
10820 | In the early 1930s many philosophers thought truth was not scientific [Field,H] |
13499 | Tarski reduced truth to reference or denotation [Field,H, by Hart,WD] |
10818 | Tarski really explained truth in terms of denoting, predicating and satisfied functions [Field,H] |
10817 | Tarski just reduced truth to some other undefined semantic notions [Field,H] |
10819 | Tarski gives us the account of truth needed to build a group of true sentences in a model [Field,H] |
10827 | Model theory is unusual in restricting the range of the quantifiers [Field,H] |
11277 | Maybe 'What is being? is confusing because we can't ask what non-being is like [Politis] |
15959 | If the substantial form of brass implies its stability, how can it melt and remain brass? [Alexander,P] |
15956 | The peripatetics treated forms and real qualities as independent of matter, and non-material [Alexander,P] |
11248 | Necessary truths can be two-way relational, where essential truths are one-way or intrinsic [Politis] |
15975 | Can the qualities of a body be split into two groups, where the smaller explains the larger? [Alexander,P] |
10826 | 'Valence' and 'gene' had to be reduced to show their compatibility with physicalism [Field,H] |
7615 | Field says reference is a causal physical relation between mental states and objects [Field,H, by Putnam] |
15963 | Science has been partly motivated by the belief that the universe is run by God's laws [Alexander,P] |
15951 | Alchemists tried to separate out essences, which influenced later chemistry [Alexander,P] |
15981 | Absolute space either provides locations, or exists but lacks 'marks' for locations [Alexander,P] |