25 ideas
22438 | Philosophy is largely concerned with finding the minimum that science could get by with [Quine] |
6118 | Philosophy is logical analysis, followed by synthesis [Russell] |
6116 | A logical language would show up the fallacy of inferring reality from ordinary language [Russell] |
22436 | Logicians don't paraphrase logic into language, because they think in the symbolic language [Quine] |
6117 | Philosophy should be built on science, to reduce error [Russell] |
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] |
6110 | Subject-predicate logic (and substance-attribute metaphysics) arise from Aryan languages [Russell] |
6107 | It is logic, not metaphysics, that is fundamental to philosophy [Russell] |
22437 | Logical languages are rooted in ordinary language, and that connection must be kept [Quine] |
6115 | Vagueness, and simples being beyond experience, are obstacles to a logical language [Russell] |
22434 | Reduction to logical forms first simplifies idioms and grammar, then finds a single reading of it [Quine] |
6109 | Some axioms may only become accepted when they lead to obvious conclusions [Russell] |
6108 | Maths can be deduced from logical axioms and the logic of relations [Russell] |
10968 | Russell gave up logical atomism because of negative, general and belief propositions [Russell, by Read] |
6113 | To mean facts we assert them; to mean simples we name them [Russell] |
6114 | 'Simples' are not experienced, but are inferred at the limits of analysis [Russell] |
21722 | Better to construct from what is known, than to infer what is unknown [Russell] |
6111 | As propositions can be put in subject-predicate form, we wrongly infer that facts have substance-quality form [Russell] |
22432 | Normally conditionals have no truth value; it is the consequent which has a conditional truth value [Quine] |
20921 | How can we state relativism of sweet and sour, if they have no determinate nature? [Theophrastus] |
6112 | Meaning takes many different forms, depending on different logical types [Russell] |
22430 | If we understand a statement, we know the circumstances of its truth [Quine] |
13713 | Quine holds time to be 'space-like': past objects are as real as spatially remote ones [Quine, by Sider] |