15 ideas
8000 | He who is ignorant of the history of philosophy is doomed to repeat it [Santayana, by MacIntyre] |
10017 | Truth in a model is more tractable than the general notion of truth [Hodes] |
10018 | Truth is quite different in interpreted set theory and in the skeleton of its language [Hodes] |
10015 | Higher-order logic may be unintelligible, but it isn't set theory [Hodes] |
10011 | Identity is a level one relation with a second-order definition [Hodes] |
10016 | When an 'interpretation' creates a model based on truth, this doesn't include Fregean 'sense' [Hodes] |
10027 | Mathematics is higher-order modal logic [Hodes] |
10026 | Arithmetic must allow for the possibility of only a finite total of objects [Hodes] |
10021 | It is claimed that numbers are objects which essentially represent cardinality quantifiers [Hodes] |
10022 | Numerical terms can't really stand for quantifiers, because that would make them first-level [Hodes] |
18521 | The criterion of existence is the possibility of action [Santayana] |
10023 | Talk of mirror images is 'encoded fictions' about real facts [Hodes] |
23060 | The good is not relative, but is rooted in facts about human needs [Santayana] |
22745 | Pherecydes said the first principle and element is earth [Pherecydes, by Sext.Empiricus] |
5883 | Pherecydes was the first to say that the soul is eternal [Pherecydes, by Cicero] |