11 ideas
21943 | Since Kant, self-criticism has been part of philosophy [Gutting] |
21944 | Structuralism describes human phenomena in terms of unconscious structures [Gutting] |
5831 | The new view is that "water" is a name, and has no definition [Schwartz,SP] |
9148 | I think of variables as objects rather than as signs [Fine,K] |
5829 | We refer to Thales successfully by name, even if all descriptions of him are false [Schwartz,SP] |
5830 | The traditional theory of names says some of the descriptions must be correct [Schwartz,SP] |
9152 | If green is abstracted from a thing, it is only seen as a type if it is common to many things [Fine,K] |
5826 | The intension of "lemon" is the conjunction of properties associated with it [Schwartz,SP] |
9149 | To obtain the number 2 by abstraction, we only want to abstract the distinctness of a pair of objects [Fine,K] |
9150 | We should define abstraction in general, with number abstraction taken as a special case [Fine,K] |
9146 | After abstraction all numbers seem identical, so only 0 and 1 will exist! [Fine,K] |