13 ideas
8833 | Why should we prefer coherent beliefs? [Klein,P] |
16489 | Is it possible to state every possible truth about the whole course of nature without using 'not'? [Russell] |
23647 | Objects have an essential constitution, producing its qualities, which we are too ignorant to define [Reid] |
16490 | Some facts about experience feel like logical necessities [Russell] |
11958 | Impossibilites are easily conceived in mathematics and geometry [Reid, by Molnar] |
16488 | It is hard to explain how a sentence like 'it is not raining' can be found true by observation [Russell] |
8834 | Infinitism avoids a regress, circularity or arbitrariness, by saying warrant just increases [Klein,P] |
8838 | If justification is endless, no link in the chain is ultimately justified [Ginet on Klein,P] |
8839 | Reasons acquire warrant through being part of a lengthening series [Klein,P] |
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] |
16491 | If we define 'this is not blue' as disbelief in 'this is blue', we eliminate 'not' as an ingredient of facts [Russell] |
4786 | Russell's 'at-at' theory says motion is to be at the intervening points at the intervening instants [Russell, by Psillos] |