15 ideas
22438 | Philosophy is largely concerned with finding the minimum that science could get by with [Quine] |
22436 | Logicians don't paraphrase logic into language, because they think in the symbolic language [Quine] |
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] |
22437 | Logical languages are rooted in ordinary language, and that connection must be kept [Quine] |
22434 | Reduction to logical forms first simplifies idioms and grammar, then finds a single reading of it [Quine] |
23647 | Objects have an essential constitution, producing its qualities, which we are too ignorant to define [Reid] |
22432 | Normally conditionals have no truth value; it is the consequent which has a conditional truth value [Quine] |
11958 | Impossibilites are easily conceived in mathematics and geometry [Reid, by Molnar] |
10805 | A sentence should be recarved to reveal its content or implication relations [Yablo] |
22430 | If we understand a statement, we know the circumstances of its truth [Quine] |
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] |
13713 | Quine holds time to be 'space-like': past objects are as real as spatially remote ones [Quine, by Sider] |