8 ideas
11211 | If a sound conclusion comes from two errors that cancel out, the path of the argument must matter [Rumfitt] |
21677 | How can the not-true fail to be false, or the not-false fail to be true? [Cicero] |
11212 | The sense of a connective comes from primitively obvious rules of inference [Rumfitt] |
11210 | Standardly 'and' and 'but' are held to have the same sense by having the same truth table [Rumfitt] |
18438 | Every worldly event, without exception, is a redistribution of microphysical states [Quine] |
21667 | Oratory and philosophy are closely allied; orators borrow from philosophy, and ornament it [Cicero] |
11214 | We learn 'not' along with affirmation, by learning to either affirm or deny a sentence [Rumfitt] |
21678 | If desire is not in our power then neither are choices, so we should not be praised or punished [Cicero] |