6 ideas
3291 | Emergent properties appear at high levels of complexity, but aren't explainable by the lower levels [Nagel] |
10558 | Abstract objects are actually constituted by the properties by which we conceive them [Zalta] |
4760 | Belief aims at knowledge (rather than truth), and mere believing is a kind of botched knowing [Williamson] |
19512 | Don't analyse knowledge; use knowledge to analyse other concepts in epistemology [Williamson, by DeRose] |
10557 | Abstract objects are captured by second-order modal logic, plus 'encoding' formulas [Zalta] |
3290 | Given the nature of heat and of water, it is literally impossible for water not to boil at the right heat [Nagel] |