Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Reality without Reference' and 'Remarks on the Foundations of Mathematics'

expand these ideas     |    start again     |     specify just one area for these texts

9 ideas

3. Truth / H. Deflationary Truth / 1. Redundant Truth
11074 'It is true that this follows' means simply: this follows [Wittgenstein]
6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 6. Logicism / a. Early logicism
11073 Two and one making three has the necessity of logical inference [Wittgenstein]
19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 1. Meaning
6387 A minimum requirement for a theory of meaning is that it include an account of truth [Davidson]
19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 4. Meaning as Truth-Conditions
6391 A theory of truth tells us how communication by language is possible [Davidson]
19. Language / B. Reference / 1. Reference theories
6388 Is reference the key place where language and the world meet? [Davidson]
6390 With a holistic approach, we can give up reference in empirical theories of language [Davidson]
19. Language / B. Reference / 4. Descriptive Reference / b. Reference by description
6389 To explain the reference of a name, you must explain its sentence-role, so reference can't be defined nonlinguistically [Davidson]
26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 5. Infinite in Nature
1748 Archelaus was the first person to say that the universe is boundless [Archelaus, by Diog. Laertius]
27. Natural Reality / G. Biology / 3. Evolution
5989 Archelaus said life began in a primeval slime [Archelaus, by Schofield]