Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Frege on Apriority (with ps)', 'Reflections on my Critics' and 'The Dappled World'

expand these ideas     |    start again     |     specify just one area for these texts

---

7 ideas

3. Truth / H. Deflationary Truth / 2. Deflationary Truth

12129

'Truth' may only apply within a theory [Kuhn]

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 2. Geometry

16901

The equivalent algebra model of geometry loses some essential spatial meaning [Burge]

6. Mathematics / B. Foundations for Mathematics / 4. Axioms for Number / d. Peano arithmetic

16902

Peano arithmetic requires grasping 0 as a primitive number [Burge]

12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 1. Nature of the A Priori

16892

Is apriority predicated mainly of truths and proofs, or of human cognition? [Burge]

14. Science / B. Scientific Theories / 1. Scientific Theory

6809	Kuhn came to accept that all scientists agree on a particular set of values [Kuhn, by Bird]

17503

Theories can never represent accurately, because their components are abstract [Cartwright,N, by Portides]

14. Science / B. Scientific Theories / 5. Commensurability

12128

In theory change, words shift their natural reference, so the theories are incommensurable [Kuhn]