19 ideas
9108 | From an impossibility anything follows [William of Ockham] |
18696 | The vagueness of truthmaker claims makes it easier to run anti-realist arguments [Button] |
9107 | A proposition is true if its subject and predicate stand for the same thing [William of Ockham] |
18701 | The coherence theory says truth is coherence of thoughts, and not about objects [Button] |
16300 | Ockham had an early axiomatic account of truth [William of Ockham, by Halbach] |
9106 | The word 'every' only signifies when added to a term such as 'man', referring to all men [William of Ockham] |
18694 | Permutation Theorem: any theory with a decent model has lots of models [Button] |
9113 | Just as unity is not a property of a single thing, so numbers are not properties of many things [William of Ockham] |
9110 | The words 'thing' and 'to be' assert the same idea, as a noun and as a verb [William of Ockham] |
18692 | Realists believe in independent objects, correspondence, and fallibility of all theories [Button] |
18693 | Indeterminacy arguments say if a theory can be made true, it has multiple versions [Button] |
18695 | An ideal theory can't be wholly false, because its consistency implies a true model [Button] |
15388 | Universals are single things, and only universal in what they signify [William of Ockham] |
9109 | If essence and existence were two things, one could exist without the other, which is impossible [William of Ockham] |
18700 | Cartesian scepticism doubts what is true; Kantian scepticism doubts that it is sayable [Button] |
18698 | Predictions give the 'content' of theories, which can then be 'equivalent' or 'adequate' [Button] |
18697 | A sentence's truth conditions are all the situations where it would be true [Button] |
9105 | Some concepts for propositions exist only in the mind, and in no language [William of Ockham] |
23832 | We both desire what is beautiful, and want it to remain as it is [Weil] |