11 ideas
18270 | Choice suggests that intensions are not needed to ensure classes [Coffa] |
17644 | Metaphysical realism is committed to there being one ultimate true theory [Putnam] |
17648 | It is an illusion to think there could be one good scientific theory of reality [Putnam] |
17643 | Shape is essential relative to 'statue', but not essential relative to 'clay' [Putnam] |
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] |
17642 | The old view that sense data are independent of mind is quite dotty [Putnam] |
7413 | Without confidence in our beliefs, how should we actually live? [Tuck] |
18266 | Mathematics generalises by using variables [Coffa] |
17645 | An alien might think oxygen was the main cause of a forest fire [Putnam] |
18279 | Relativity is as absolutist about space-time as Newton was about space [Coffa] |