11 ideas
23295 | Truth cannot be reduced to anything simpler [Davidson] |
17962 | The truth-maker principle is that every truth has a sufficient truth-maker [Forrest] |
23298 | Neither Aristotle nor Tarski introduce the facts needed for a correspondence theory [Davidson] |
23297 | The language to define truth needs a finite vocabulary, to make the definition finite [Davidson] |
23296 | We can elucidate indefinable truth, but showing its relation to other concepts [Davidson] |
14637 | Only individuals have essences, so numbers (as a higher type based on classes) lack them [McMichael] |
14636 | Essences are the interesting necessary properties resulting from a thing's own peculiar nature [McMichael] |
14640 | Maybe essential properties have to be intrinsic, as well as necessary? [McMichael] |
14638 | Essentialism is false, because it implies the existence of necessary singular propositions [McMichael] |
23294 | It is common to doubt truth when discussing it, but totally accept it when discussing knowledge [Davidson] |
14639 | Individuals enter into laws only through their general qualities and relations [McMichael] |