14 ideas
21697 | The Struthionic Fallacy is that of burying one's head in the sand [Quine] |
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] |
21698 | All relations, apart from ancestrals, can be reduced to simpler logic [Quine] |
18894 | Predicates form a hierarchy, from the most general, down to names at the bottom [Sommers] |
21696 | Nominalism rejects both attributes and classes (where extensionalism accepts the classes) [Quine] |
18900 | Unfortunately for realists, modern logic cannot say that some fact exists [Sommers] |
7458 | The reliability of witnesses depends on whether they benefit from their observations [Laplace, by Hacking] |
3441 | If a supreme intellect knew all atoms and movements, it could know all of the past and the future [Laplace] |
18898 | In standard logic, names are the only way to refer [Sommers] |