19 ideas
17713 | After 1903, Husserl avoids metaphysical commitments [Mares] |
13365 | Russell's Paradox is a stripped-down version of Cantor's Paradox [Priest,G on Russell] |
10711 | Russell's paradox means we cannot assume that every property is collectivizing [Potter on Russell] |
17715 | The truth of the axioms doesn't matter for pure mathematics, but it does for applied [Mares] |
17716 | Mathematics is relations between properties we abstract from experience [Mares] |
9127 | Russell refuted Frege's principle that there is a set for each property [Russell, by Sorensen] |
17703 | Light in straight lines is contingent a priori; stipulated as straight, because they happen to be so [Mares] |
17714 | Aristotelians dislike the idea of a priori judgements from pure reason [Mares] |
17705 | Empiricists say rationalists mistake imaginative powers for modal insights [Mares] |
17700 | The most popular view is that coherent beliefs explain one another [Mares] |
17704 | Operationalism defines concepts by our ways of measuring them [Mares] |
7531 | We don't assert private thoughts; the objects are part of what we assert [Russell] |
17710 | Aristotelian justification uses concepts abstracted from experience [Mares] |
17706 | The essence of a concept is either its definition or its conceptual relations? [Mares] |
17701 | Possible worlds semantics has a nice compositional account of modal statements [Mares] |
17702 | Unstructured propositions are sets of possible worlds; structured ones have components [Mares] |
13304 | Learned men gain more in one day than others do in a lifetime [Posidonius] |
17708 | Maybe space has points, but processes always need regions with a size [Mares] |
20820 | Time is an interval of motion, or the measure of speed [Posidonius, by Stobaeus] |