Ideas of Roy Sorensen, by Theme

[American, fl. 2002, Professor at Dartmouth College.]

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1. Philosophy / F. Analytic Philosophy / 7. Limitations of Analysis

9136	The paradox of analysis says that any conceptual analysis must be either trivial or false

2. Reason / B. Laws of Thought / 1. Laws of Thought

9131	Two long understandable sentences can have an unintelligible conjunction

3. Truth / B. Truthmakers / 6. Making Negative Truths

9139	If nothing exists, no truthmakers could make 'Nothing exists' true

3. Truth / B. Truthmakers / 12. Rejecting Truthmakers

9140	Which toothbrush is the truthmaker for 'buy one, get one free'?

5. Theory of Logic / D. Assumptions for Logic / 1. Bivalence

9119	No attempt to deny bivalence has ever been accepted

5. Theory of Logic / E. Structures of Logic / 4. Variables in Logic

9135	We now see that generalizations use variables rather than abstract entities

5. Theory of Logic / L. Paradox / 3. Antinomies

9125	Denying problems, or being romantically defeated by them, won't make them go away

5. Theory of Logic / L. Paradox / 6. Paradoxes in Language / a. The Liar paradox

9137	Banning self-reference would outlaw 'This very sentence is in English'

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 9. Vagueness / c. Vagueness as ignorance

9116	Vague words have hidden boundaries

9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 3. Unity Problems / e. Vague objects

9132	An offer of 'free coffee or juice' could slowly shift from exclusive 'or' to inclusive 'or'

12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 1. Nature of the A Priori

9128	It is propositional attitudes which can be a priori, not the propositions themselves

9130	Attributing apriority to a proposition is attributing a cognitive ability to someone

12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 2. Qualities in Perception / d. Secondary qualities

9118	The colour bands of the spectrum arise from our biology; they do not exist in the physics

12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 5. Interpretation

9124	We are unable to perceive a nose (on the back of a mask) as concave

13. Knowledge Criteria / B. Internal Justification / 5. Coherentism / b. Pro-coherentism

9126	Bayesians build near-certainty from lots of reasonably probable beliefs

13. Knowledge Criteria / D. Scepticism / 3. Illusion Scepticism

9121	Illusions are not a reason for skepticism, but a source of interesting scientific information

19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 5. Meaning as Verification

9134	The negation of a meaningful sentence must itself be meaningful

19. Language / D. Propositions / 4. Mental Propositions

9133	Propositions are what settle problems of ambiguity in sentences

25. Social Practice / A. Freedoms / 4. Free market

9129	I can buy any litre of water, but not every litre of water

28. God / A. Divine Nature / 4. Divine Contradictions

9122	God cannot experience unwanted pain, so God cannot understand human beings