12 ideas
20955 | Art can make reason more all-inclusive, by articulating what seemed inexpressible [Bowie] |
11211 | If a sound conclusion comes from two errors that cancel out, the path of the argument must matter [Rumfitt] |
11210 | Standardly 'and' and 'but' are held to have the same sense by having the same truth table [Rumfitt] |
11212 | The sense of a connective comes from primitively obvious rules of inference [Rumfitt] |
16978 | If conceivability is a priori coherence, that implies possibility [Tahko] |
20950 | German Idealism says our thinking and nature have the same rational structure [Bowie] |
16975 | Essences are used to explain natural kinds, modality, and causal powers [Tahko] |
20942 | Nazis think race predetermines the self [Bowie] |
20946 | Rhetoric is built into language, so it cannot be stripped from philosophy [Bowie] |
11214 | We learn 'not' along with affirmation, by learning to either affirm or deny a sentence [Rumfitt] |
16976 | Scientific essentialists tend to characterise essence in terms of modality (not vice versa) [Tahko] |
16977 | If essence is modal and laws are necessary, essentialist knowledge is found by scientists [Tahko] |