9 ideas
291 | Don't assume that wisdom is the automatic consequence of old age [Plato] |
19323 | 'Snow is white' depends on meaning; whether snow is white depends on snow [Etchemendy] |
19137 | We can get a substantive account of Tarski's truth by adding primitive 'true' to the object language [Etchemendy] |
18270 | Choice suggests that intensions are not needed to ensure classes [Coffa] |
18263 | The semantic tradition aimed to explain the a priori semantically, not by Kantian intuition [Coffa] |
18272 | Platonism defines the a priori in a way that makes it unknowable [Coffa] |
18266 | Mathematics generalises by using variables [Coffa] |
293 | Being unafraid (perhaps through ignorance) and being brave are two different things [Plato] |
18279 | Relativity is as absolutist about space-time as Newton was about space [Coffa] |