12 ideas
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] |
15959 | If the substantial form of brass implies its stability, how can it melt and remain brass? [Alexander,P] |
15956 | The peripatetics treated forms and real qualities as independent of matter, and non-material [Alexander,P] |
12189 | Logical necessity involves a decision about usage, and is non-realist and non-cognitive [Wright,C, by McFetridge] |
15975 | Can the qualities of a body be split into two groups, where the smaller explains the larger? [Alexander,P] |
7320 | Holism cannot give a coherent account of scientific methodology [Wright,C, by Miller,A] |
11214 | We learn 'not' along with affirmation, by learning to either affirm or deny a sentence [Rumfitt] |
15963 | Science has been partly motivated by the belief that the universe is run by God's laws [Alexander,P] |
15951 | Alchemists tried to separate out essences, which influenced later chemistry [Alexander,P] |
15981 | Absolute space either provides locations, or exists but lacks 'marks' for locations [Alexander,P] |