12 ideas
| 12772 | Philosophy is a value- and attitude-driven enterprise [Fraassen] |
| 12771 | Is it likely that a successful, coherent, explanatory ontological hypothesis is true? [Fraassen] |
| 12773 | Analytic philosophy has an exceptional arsenal of critical tools [Fraassen] |
| 10838 | To explain a concept, we need its purpose, not just its rules of usage [Dummett] |
| 12770 | We may end up with a huge theory of carefully constructed falsehoods [Fraassen] |
| 10837 | It is part of the concept of truth that we aim at making true statements [Dummett] |
| 10840 | We must be able to specify truths in a precise language, like winning moves in a game [Dummett] |
| 19171 | Tarski's truth is like rules for winning games, without saying what 'winning' means [Dummett, by Davidson] |
| 12769 | Inference to best explanation contains all sorts of hidden values [Fraassen] |
| 12768 | We accept many scientific theories without endorsing them as true [Fraassen] |
| 10839 | You can't infer a dog's abstract concepts from its behaviour [Dummett] |
| 5845 | Niceratus learnt the whole of Homer by heart, as a guide to goodness [Xenophon] |