24 ideas
291 | Don't assume that wisdom is the automatic consequence of old age [Plato] |
17713 | After 1903, Husserl avoids metaphysical commitments [Mares] |
18274 | Analysis complicates a statement, but only as far as the complexity of its meaning [Wittgenstein] |
16908 | We can dispense with self-evidence, if language itself prevents logical mistakes [Jeshion on Wittgenstein] |
18276 | A statement's logical form derives entirely from its constituents [Wittgenstein] |
6563 | 'And' and 'not' are non-referring terms, which do not represent anything [Wittgenstein, by Fogelin] |
17715 | The truth of the axioms doesn't matter for pure mathematics, but it does for applied [Mares] |
17716 | Mathematics is relations between properties we abstract from experience [Mares] |
23472 | The sense of propositions relies on the world's basic logical structure [Wittgenstein] |
17703 | Light in straight lines is contingent a priori; stipulated as straight, because they happen to be so [Mares] |
23500 | My main problem is the order of the world, and whether it is knowable a priori [Wittgenstein] |
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] |
17704 | Operationalism defines concepts by our ways of measuring them [Mares] |
22323 | The philosophical I is the metaphysical subject, the limit - not a part of the world [Wittgenstein] |
17710 | Aristotelian justification uses concepts abstracted from experience [Mares] |
17706 | The essence of a concept is either its definition or its conceptual relations? [Mares] |
23481 | Propositions assemble a world experimentally, like the model of a road accident [Wittgenstein] |
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] |
293 | Being unafraid (perhaps through ignorance) and being brave are two different things [Plato] |
4678 | Absolute prohibitions are the essence of ethics, and suicide is the most obvious example [Wittgenstein] |
17708 | Maybe space has points, but processes always need regions with a size [Mares] |