13 ideas
23449 | Interpreting a text is representing it as making sense [Morris,M] |
18170 | The Axiom of Reducibility is self-effacing: if true, it isn't needed [Quine] |
23484 | Bipolarity adds to Bivalence the capacity for both truth values [Morris,M] |
23494 | Conjunctive and disjunctive quantifiers are too specific, and are confined to the finite [Morris,M] |
23460 | To count, we must distinguish things, and have a series with successors in it [Morris,M] |
23451 | Counting needs to distinguish things, and also needs the concept of a successor in a series [Morris,M] |
23452 | Discriminating things for counting implies concepts of identity and distinctness [Morris,M] |
8568 | A property is merely a constituent of laws of nature; temperature is just part of thermodynamics [Mellor] |
8564 | There is obviously a possible predicate for every property [Mellor] |
8566 | We need universals for causation and laws of nature; the latter give them their identity [Mellor] |
8565 | If properties were just the meanings of predicates, they couldn't give predicates their meaning [Mellor] |
23491 | There must exist a general form of propositions, which are predictabe. It is: such and such is the case [Morris,M] |
8567 | Singular causation requires causes to raise the physical probability of their effects [Mellor] |