21 ideas
13407 | All worthwhile philosophy is synthetic theorizing, evaluated by experience [Papineau] |
1635 | Mathematics reduces to set theory (which is a bit vague and unobvious), but not to logic proper [Quine] |
13409 | Our best theories may commit us to mathematical abstracta, but that doesn't justify the commitment [Papineau] |
6230 | If the soul were a tabula rasa, with no innate ideas, there could be no moral goodness or justice [Cudworth] |
13406 | A priori knowledge is analytic - the structure of our concepts - and hence unimportant [Papineau] |
6228 | Senses cannot judge one another, so what judges senses cannot be a sense, but must be superior [Cudworth] |
13408 | Intuition and thought-experiments embody substantial information about the world [Papineau] |
7627 | You can't reduce epistemology to psychology, because that presupposes epistemology [Maund on Quine] |
8871 | We should abandon a search for justification or foundations, and focus on how knowledge is acquired [Quine, by Davidson] |
8826 | If we abandon justification and normativity in epistemology, we must also abandon knowledge [Kim on Quine] |
8827 | Without normativity, naturalized epistemology isn't even about beliefs [Kim on Quine] |
8899 | Epistemology is a part of psychology, studying how our theories relate to our evidence [Quine] |
6229 | Sense is fixed in the material form, and so can't grasp abstract universals [Cudworth] |
8898 | Inculcations of meanings of words rests ultimately on sensory evidence [Quine] |
13410 | Verificationism about concepts means you can't deny a theory, because you can't have the concept [Papineau] |
8900 | In observation sentences, we could substitute community acceptance for analyticity [Quine] |
6227 | Keeping promises and contracts is an obligation of natural justice [Cudworth] |
6225 | Obligation to obey all positive laws is older than all laws [Cudworth] |
6224 | An omnipotent will cannot make two things equal or alike if they aren't [Cudworth] |
6223 | If the will and pleasure of God controls justice, then anything wicked or unjust would become good if God commanded it [Cudworth] |
6226 | The requirement that God must be obeyed must precede any authority of God's commands [Cudworth] |