8 ideas
13407 | All worthwhile philosophy is synthetic theorizing, evaluated by experience [Papineau] |
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] |
13408 | Intuition and thought-experiments embody substantial information about the world [Papineau] |
13410 | Verificationism about concepts means you can't deny a theory, because you can't have the concept [Papineau] |
13304 | Learned men gain more in one day than others do in a lifetime [Posidonius] |
8433 | There are few traces of an event before it happens, but many afterwards [Lewis, by Horwich] |
20820 | Time is an interval of motion, or the measure of speed [Posidonius, by Stobaeus] |