23 ideas
17651 | Without words or other symbols, we have no world [Goodman] |
17652 | Truth is irrelevant if no statements are involved [Goodman] |
15395 | Give up objects necessitating truths, and say their natures cause the truths? [Cameron] |
15394 | Truthmaker requires a commitment to tropes or states of affairs, for contingent truths [Cameron] |
17656 | Being primitive or prior always depends on a constructional system [Goodman] |
17661 | We don't recognise patterns - we invent them [Goodman] |
17644 | Metaphysical realism is committed to there being one ultimate true theory [Putnam] |
17659 | Reality is largely a matter of habit [Goodman] |
17657 | We build our world, and ignore anything that won't fit [Goodman] |
17648 | It is an illusion to think there could be one good scientific theory of reality [Putnam] |
17654 | A world can be full of variety or not, depending on how we sort it [Goodman] |
15401 | Essentialists say intrinsic properties arise from what the thing is, irrespective of surroundings [Cameron] |
15393 | An object's intrinsic properties are had in virtue of how it is, independently [Cameron] |
17643 | Shape is essential relative to 'statue', but not essential relative to 'clay' [Putnam] |
15396 | Most criteria for identity over time seem to leave two later objects identical to the earlier one [Cameron] |
17653 | Things can only be judged the 'same' by citing some respect of sameness [Goodman] |
17642 | The old view that sense data are independent of mind is quite dotty [Putnam] |
17660 | Discovery is often just finding a fit, like a jigsaw puzzle [Goodman] |
17658 | Users of digital thermometers recognise no temperatures in the gaps [Goodman] |
17650 | We lack frames of reference to transform physics, biology and psychology into one another [Goodman] |
17655 | Grue and green won't be in the same world, as that would block induction entirely [Goodman] |
17649 | If the world is one it has many aspects, and if there are many worlds they will collect into one [Goodman] |
17645 | An alien might think oxygen was the main cause of a forest fire [Putnam] |