10 ideas
6859 | Analytic philosophy has much higher standards of thinking than continental philosophy [Williamson] |
5437 | The claim of hermeneutics to give knowledge through understanding is challenged by positivism [Mautner on Dilthey] |
6862 | Fuzzy logic uses a continuum of truth, but it implies contradictions [Williamson] |
6858 | Formal logic struck me as exactly the language I wanted to think in [Williamson] |
6863 | Close to conceptual boundaries judgement is too unreliable to give knowledge [Williamson] |
13160 | To exist and be understood, a multitude must first be reduced to a unity [Leibniz] |
13161 | Substances are everywhere in matter, like points in a line [Leibniz] |
6861 | What sort of logic is needed for vague concepts, and what sort of concept of truth? [Williamson] |
6860 | How can one discriminate yellow from red, but not the colours in between? [Williamson] |
5436 | Natural science seeks explanation; human sciences seek understanding [Dilthey, by Mautner] |