20 ideas
11178 | The essence or definition of an essence involves either a class of properties or a class of propositions [Fine,K] |
10825 | The notion of truth is to help us make use of the utterances of others [Field,H] |
10820 | In the early 1930s many philosophers thought truth was not scientific [Field,H] |
10818 | Tarski really explained truth in terms of denoting, predicating and satisfied functions [Field,H] |
13499 | Tarski reduced truth to reference or denotation [Field,H, by Hart,WD] |
10817 | Tarski just reduced truth to some other undefined semantic notions [Field,H] |
11175 | Logical concepts rest on certain inferences, not on facts about implications [Fine,K] |
11176 | The property of Property Abstraction says any suitable condition must imply a property [Fine,K] |
10819 | Tarski gives us the account of truth needed to build a group of true sentences in a model [Field,H] |
11174 | A logical truth is true in virtue of the nature of the logical concepts [Fine,K] |
10827 | Model theory is unusual in restricting the range of the quantifiers [Field,H] |
11177 | Can the essence of an object circularly involve itself, or involve another object? [Fine,K] |
11173 | Being a man is a consequence of his essence, not constitutive of it [Fine,K] |
11179 | If there are alternative definitions, then we have three possibilities for essence [Fine,K] |
3488 | Freud treats the unconscious as intentional and hence mental [Freud, by Searle] |
5689 | Freud and others have shown that we don't know our own beliefs, feelings, motive and attitudes [Freud, by Shoemaker] |
10826 | 'Valence' and 'gene' had to be reduced to show their compatibility with physicalism [Field,H] |
23950 | Freud said passions are pressures of some flowing hydraulic quantity [Freud, by Solomon] |
7615 | Field says reference is a causal physical relation between mental states and objects [Field,H, by Putnam] |
22344 | Freud is pessimistic about human nature; it is ambivalent motive and fantasy, rather than reason [Freud, by Murdoch] |