14 ideas
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] |
18894 | Predicates form a hierarchy, from the most general, down to names at the bottom [Sommers] |
18900 | Unfortunately for realists, modern logic cannot say that some fact exists [Sommers] |
14802 | Physical and psychical laws of mind are either independent, or derived in one or other direction [Peirce] |
18898 | In standard logic, names are the only way to refer [Sommers] |
13304 | Learned men gain more in one day than others do in a lifetime [Posidonius] |
14800 | The world is full of variety, but laws seem to produce uniformity [Peirce] |
20820 | Time is an interval of motion, or the measure of speed [Posidonius, by Stobaeus] |
14801 | Darwinian evolution is chance, with the destruction of bad results [Peirce] |