10 ideas
18270 | Choice suggests that intensions are not needed to ensure classes [Coffa] |
579 | Cratylus said you couldn't even step into the same river once [Cratylus, by Aristotle] |
9354 | Why should necessities only be knowable a priori? That Hesperus is Phosporus is known empirically [Devitt] |
18263 | The semantic tradition aimed to explain the a priori semantically, not by Kantian intuition [Coffa] |
9353 | We explain away a priori knowledge, not as directly empirical, but as indirectly holistically empirical [Devitt] |
18272 | Platonism defines the a priori in a way that makes it unknowable [Coffa] |
9356 | The idea of the a priori is so obscure that it won't explain anything [Devitt] |
578 | Cratylus decided speech was hopeless, and his only expression was the movement of a finger [Cratylus, by Aristotle] |
18266 | Mathematics generalises by using variables [Coffa] |
18279 | Relativity is as absolutist about space-time as Newton was about space [Coffa] |