14 ideas
7920 | Descriptive metaphysics aims at actual structure, revisionary metaphysics at a better structure [Strawson,P] |
7922 | Descriptive metaphysics concerns unchanging core concepts and categories [Strawson,P] |
7921 | Close examination of actual word usage is the only sure way in philosophy [Strawson,P] |
19048 | Contextual definition shifted the emphasis from words to whole sentences [Quine] |
19047 | Bentham's contextual definitions preserved terms after their denotation became doubtful [Quine] |
19049 | In scientific theories sentences are too brief to be independent vehicles of empirical meaning [Quine] |
19046 | Empiricism improvements: words for ideas, then sentences, then systems, then no analytic, then naturalism [Quine] |
9282 | I can only apply consciousness predicates to myself if I can apply them to others [Strawson,P] |
9263 | A person is an entity to which we can ascribe predicates of consciousness and corporeality [Strawson,P] |
22371 | Determinism threatens free will if actions can be causally traced to external factors [Foot] |
9281 | The idea of a predicate matches a range of things to which it can be applied [Strawson,P] |
19050 | Holism in language blurs empirical synthetic and empty analytic sentences [Quine] |
22372 | Not all actions need motives, but it is irrational to perform troublesome actions with no motive [Foot] |
22373 | People can act out of vanity without being vain, or even vain about this kind of thing [Foot] |