13 ideas
| 291 | Don't assume that wisdom is the automatic consequence of old age [Plato] |
| 15527 | Defining terms either enables elimination, or shows that they don't require elimination [Lewis] |
| 10735 | Abstraction from objects won't reveal an operation's being performed 'so many times' [Geach] |
| 15530 | A logically determinate name names the same thing in every possible world [Lewis] |
| 15531 | The Ramsey sentence of a theory says that it has at least one realisation [Lewis] |
| 15528 | A Ramsey sentence just asserts that a theory can be realised, without saying by what [Lewis] |
| 15526 | There is a method for defining new scientific terms just using the terms we already understand [Lewis] |
| 15529 | It is better to have one realisation of a theory than many - but it may not always be possible [Lewis] |
| 10732 | If concepts are just recognitional, then general judgements would be impossible [Geach] |
| 10731 | For abstractionists, concepts are capacities to recognise recurrent features of the world [Geach] |
| 10733 | The abstractionist cannot explain 'some' and 'not' [Geach] |
| 10734 | Only a judgement can distinguish 'striking' from 'being struck' [Geach] |
| 293 | Being unafraid (perhaps through ignorance) and being brave are two different things [Plato] |