12 ideas
291 | Don't assume that wisdom is the automatic consequence of old age [Plato] |
10153 | In everyday language, truth seems indefinable, inconsistent, and illogical [Tarski] |
19086 | Does the pragmatic theory of meaning support objective truth, or make it impossible? [Macbeth] |
19141 | Tarski thought axiomatic truth was too contingent, and in danger of inconsistencies [Tarski, by Davidson] |
10048 | There is no clear boundary between the logical and the non-logical [Tarski] |
10694 | Logical consequence is when in any model in which the premises are true, the conclusion is true [Tarski, by Beall/Restall] |
10479 | Logical consequence: true premises give true conclusions under all interpretations [Tarski, by Hodges,W] |
10157 | Tarski improved Hilbert's geometry axioms, and without set-theory [Tarski, by Feferman/Feferman] |
19093 | Greek mathematics is wholly sensory, where ours is wholly inferential [Macbeth] |
19091 | Seeing reality mathematically makes it an object of thought, not of experience [Macbeth] |
19088 | For pragmatists a concept means its consequences [Macbeth] |
293 | Being unafraid (perhaps through ignorance) and being brave are two different things [Plato] |