25 ideas
9593 | Progress in philosophy is incremental, not an immature seeking after drama [Williamson] |
6602 | Philosophy is like a statue which is worshipped but never advances [Bacon] |
18901 | Truthmakers are facts 'of' a domain, not something 'in' the domain [Sommers] |
9594 | Correspondence to the facts is a bad account of analytic truth [Williamson] |
18904 | 'Predicable' terms come in charged pairs, with one the negation of the other [Sommers, by Engelbretsen] |
18895 | Logic which maps ordinary reasoning must be transparent, and free of variables [Sommers] |
18897 | Predicate logic has to spell out that its identity relation '=' is an equivalent relation [Sommers] |
18893 | Translating into quantificational idiom offers no clues as to how ordinary thinkers reason [Sommers] |
18903 | Sommers promotes the old idea that negation basically refers to terms [Sommers, by Engelbretsen] |
18894 | Predicates form a hierarchy, from the most general, down to names at the bottom [Sommers] |
18900 | Unfortunately for realists, modern logic cannot say that some fact exists [Sommers] |
9601 | The realist/anti-realist debate is notoriously obscure and fruitless [Williamson] |
9599 | There cannot be vague objects, so there may be no such thing as a mountain [Williamson] |
9602 | Common sense and classical logic are often simultaneously abandoned in debates on vagueness [Williamson] |
9598 | Modal thinking isn't a special intuition; it is part of ordinary counterfactual thinking [Williamson] |
16536 | Williamson can't base metaphysical necessity on the psychology of causal counterfactuals [Lowe on Williamson] |
9596 | We scorn imagination as a test of possibility, forgetting its role in counterfactuals [Williamson] |
9597 | There are 'armchair' truths which are not a priori, because experience was involved [Williamson] |
16724 | The senses deceive, but also show their own errors [Bacon] |
9592 | Intuition is neither powerful nor vacuous, but reveals linguistic or conceptual competence [Williamson] |
20181 | When analytic philosophers run out of arguments, they present intuitions as their evidence [Williamson] |
6603 | Nature is revealed when we put it under pressure rather than observe it [Bacon] |
9595 | You might know that the word 'gob' meant 'mouth', but not be competent to use it [Williamson] |
18898 | In standard logic, names are the only way to refer [Sommers] |
9600 | If languages are intertranslatable, and cognition is innate, then cultures are all similar [Williamson] |