8 ideas
13407 | All worthwhile philosophy is synthetic theorizing, evaluated by experience [Papineau] |
13409 | Our best theories may commit us to mathematical abstracta, but that doesn't justify the commitment [Papineau] |
6215 | 'Contingent' means that the cause is unperceived, not that there is no cause [Hobbes] |
3570 | Maybe knowledge is belief which 'tracks' the truth [Nozick, by Williams,M] |
13406 | A priori knowledge is analytic - the structure of our concepts - and hence unimportant [Papineau] |
13408 | Intuition and thought-experiments embody substantial information about the world [Papineau] |
2748 | A true belief isn't knowledge if it would be believed even if false. It should 'track the truth' [Nozick, by Dancy,J] |
13410 | Verificationism about concepts means you can't deny a theory, because you can't have the concept [Papineau] |