24 ideas
12596 | Reasoning aims at increasing explanatory coherence [Harman] |
12599 | Reason conservatively: stick to your beliefs, and prefer reasoning that preserves most of them [Harman] |
17990 | Instances of minimal truth miss out propositions inexpressible in current English [Hofweber] |
12595 | We have a theory of logic (implication and inconsistency), but not of inference or reasoning [Harman] |
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] |
12597 | I might accept P and Q as likely, but reject P-and-Q as unlikely [Harman] |
17988 | Quantification can't all be substitutional; some reference is obviously to objects [Hofweber] |
12598 | Reality is the overlap of true complete theories [Harman] |
17989 | Since properties have properties, there can be a typed or a type-free theory of them [Hofweber] |
12602 | There is no natural border between inner and outer [Harman] |
12603 | We can only describe mental attitudes in relation to the external world [Harman] |
12601 | The way things look is a relational matter, not an intrinsic matter [Harman] |
12592 | Concepts in thought have content, but not meaning, which requires communication [Harman] |
12590 | Take meaning to be use in calculation with concepts, rather than in communication [Harman] |
12593 | The use theory attaches meanings to words, not to sentences [Harman] |
12588 | Meaning from use of thoughts, constructed from concepts, which have a role relating to reality [Harman] |
12589 | Some regard conceptual role semantics as an entirely internal matter [Harman] |
12600 | The content of thought is relations, between mental states, things in the world, and contexts [Harman] |
12594 | If one proposition negates the other, which is the negative one? [Harman] |
11214 | We learn 'not' along with affirmation, by learning to either affirm or deny a sentence [Rumfitt] |
12591 | Mastery of a language requires thinking, and not just communication [Harman] |
17991 | Holism says language can't be translated; the expressibility hypothesis says everything can [Hofweber] |