7 ideas
18487 | We want to know what makes sentences true, rather than defining 'true' [McFetridge] |
18488 | We normally explain natural events by citing further facts [McFetridge] |
23647 | Objects have an essential constitution, producing its qualities, which we are too ignorant to define [Reid] |
6215 | 'Contingent' means that the cause is unperceived, not that there is no cause [Hobbes] |
11958 | Impossibilites are easily conceived in mathematics and geometry [Reid, by Molnar] |
23646 | Reference is by name, or a term-plus-circumstance, or ostensively, or by description [Reid] |
23645 | A word's meaning is the thing conceived, as fixed by linguistic experts [Reid] |