7 ideas
291 | Don't assume that wisdom is the automatic consequence of old age [Plato] |
15549 | If it were true that nothing at all existed, would that have a truthmaker? [Lewis] |
13768 | Validity can preserve certainty in mathematics, but conditionals about contingents are another matter [Edgington] |
13770 | There are many different conditional mental states, and different conditional speech acts [Edgington] |
13764 | Are conditionals truth-functional - do the truth values of A and B determine the truth value of 'If A, B'? [Edgington] |
13765 | 'If A,B' must entail ¬(A & ¬B); otherwise we could have A true, B false, and If A,B true, invalidating modus ponens [Edgington] |
293 | Being unafraid (perhaps through ignorance) and being brave are two different things [Plato] |