8 ideas
6851 | We overvalue whether arguments are valid, and undervalue whether they are interesting [Monk] |
14217 | The 'standard' view of relations is that they hold of several objects in a given order [Fine,K] |
14216 | The 'positionalist' view of relations says the number of places is fixed, but not the order [Fine,K] |
14218 | A block on top of another contains one relation, not both 'on top of' and 'beneath' [Fine,K] |
14219 | Language imposes a direction on a road which is not really part of the road [Fine,K] |
14220 | Explain biased relations as orderings of the unbiased, or the unbiased as permutation classes of the biased? [Fine,K] |
14296 | Dispositions are physical states of mechanism; when known, these replace the old disposition term [Quine] |
6850 | Wittgenstein pared his life down in his search for decency [Monk] |