12 ideas
23449 | Interpreting a text is representing it as making sense [Morris,M] |
8083 | Boole applied normal algebra to logic, aiming at an algebra of thought [Boole, by Devlin] |
7727 | Boole's notation can represent syllogisms and propositional arguments, but not both at once [Boole, by Weiner] |
8686 | Boole made logic more mathematical, with algebra, quantifiers and probability [Boole, by Friend] |
23484 | Bipolarity adds to Bivalence the capacity for both truth values [Morris,M] |
23494 | Conjunctive and disjunctive quantifiers are too specific, and are confined to the finite [Morris,M] |
22277 | Boole's method was axiomatic, achieving economy, plus multiple interpretations [Boole, by Potter] |
23451 | Counting needs to distinguish things, and also needs the concept of a successor in a series [Morris,M] |
23460 | To count, we must distinguish things, and have a series with successors in it [Morris,M] |
23452 | Discriminating things for counting implies concepts of identity and distinctness [Morris,M] |
16463 | Adams says actual things have haecceities, but not things that only might exist [Adams,RM, by Stalnaker] |
23491 | There must exist a general form of propositions, which are predictabe. It is: such and such is the case [Morris,M] |