Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Intellectual Norms and Foundations of Mind', 'Lecture on Nominalism' and 'Letters to Schlick'

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

---

5 ideas

2. Reason / F. Fallacies / 1. Fallacy

21697

The Struthionic Fallacy is that of burying one's head in the sand [Quine]

5. Theory of Logic / E. Structures of Logic / 6. Relations in Logic

21698

All relations, apart from ancestrals, can be reduced to simpler logic [Quine]

6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 3. Mathematical Nominalism

21696

Nominalism rejects both attributes and classes (where extensionalism accepts the classes) [Quine]

19. Language / F. Communication / 6. Interpreting Language / a. Translation

18285

All translation loses some content (but language does not create reality) [Carnap]

26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 7. Strictness of Laws

14349

If there are no finks or antidotes at the fundamental level, the laws can't be ceteris paribus [Burge, by Corry]