20 ideas
22438 | Philosophy is largely concerned with finding the minimum that science could get by with [Quine] |
22138 | Science rests on scholastic metaphysics, not on Hume, Kant or Carnap [Boulter] |
22436 | Logicians don't paraphrase logic into language, because they think in the symbolic language [Quine] |
22431 | Good algorithms and theories need many occurrences of just a few elements [Quine] |
22435 | The logician's '→' does not mean the English if-then [Quine] |
22433 | It is important that the quantification over temporal entities is timeless [Quine] |
22437 | Logical languages are rooted in ordinary language, and that connection must be kept [Quine] |
22434 | Reduction to logical forms first simplifies idioms and grammar, then finds a single reading of it [Quine] |
16007 | I assume existence, rather than reasoning towards it [Kierkegaard] |
22134 | Thoughts are general, but the world isn't, so how can we think accurately? [Boulter] |
16013 | Nothing necessary can come into existence, since it already 'is' [Kierkegaard] |
22150 | Logical possibility needs the concepts of the proposition to be adequate [Boulter] |
22432 | Normally conditionals have no truth value; it is the consequent which has a conditional truth value [Quine] |
22139 | Experiments don't just observe; they look to see what interventions change the natural order [Boulter] |
22136 | Science begins with sufficient reason, de-animation, and the importance of nature [Boulter] |
22135 | Our concepts can never fully capture reality, but simplification does not falsify [Boulter] |
22430 | If we understand a statement, we know the circumstances of its truth [Quine] |
22152 | Aristotelians accept the analytic-synthetic distinction [Boulter] |
22156 | The facts about human health are the measure of the values in our lives [Boulter] |
13713 | Quine holds time to be 'space-like': past objects are as real as spatially remote ones [Quine, by Sider] |