20 ideas
17713 | After 1903, Husserl avoids metaphysical commitments [Mares] |
20768 | Like spiderswebs, dialectical arguments are clever but useless [Ariston, by Diog. Laertius] |
19086 | Does the pragmatic theory of meaning support objective truth, or make it impossible? [Macbeth] |
17715 | The truth of the axioms doesn't matter for pure mathematics, but it does for applied [Mares] |
19093 | Greek mathematics is wholly sensory, where ours is wholly inferential [Macbeth] |
17716 | Mathematics is relations between properties we abstract from experience [Mares] |
17703 | Light in straight lines is contingent a priori; stipulated as straight, because they happen to be so [Mares] |
17714 | Aristotelians dislike the idea of a priori judgements from pure reason [Mares] |
17705 | Empiricists say rationalists mistake imaginative powers for modal insights [Mares] |
17700 | The most popular view is that coherent beliefs explain one another [Mares] |
19091 | Seeing reality mathematically makes it an object of thought, not of experience [Macbeth] |
17704 | Operationalism defines concepts by our ways of measuring them [Mares] |
19088 | For pragmatists a concept means its consequences [Macbeth] |
17710 | Aristotelian justification uses concepts abstracted from experience [Mares] |
17706 | The essence of a concept is either its definition or its conceptual relations? [Mares] |
17701 | Possible worlds semantics has a nice compositional account of modal statements [Mares] |
17702 | Unstructured propositions are sets of possible worlds; structured ones have components [Mares] |
3049 | The chief good is indifference to what lies midway between virtue and vice [Ariston, by Diog. Laertius] |
3549 | Ariston says rules are useless for the virtuous and the non-virtuous [Ariston, by Annas] |
17708 | Maybe space has points, but processes always need regions with a size [Mares] |