15 ideas
291 | Don't assume that wisdom is the automatic consequence of old age [Plato] |
8996 | If if time is money then if time is not money then time is money then if if if time is not money... [Quine] |
8995 | Definition by words is determinate but relative; fixing contexts could make it absolute [Quine] |
10064 | Quine quickly dismisses If-thenism [Quine, by Musgrave] |
20296 | Logic needs general conventions, but that needs logic to apply them to individual cases [Quine, by Rey] |
8998 | Claims that logic and mathematics are conventional are either empty, uninteresting, or false [Quine] |
8999 | Logic isn't conventional, because logic is needed to infer logic from conventions [Quine] |
9000 | If a convention cannot be communicated until after its adoption, what is its role? [Quine] |
8994 | If analytic geometry identifies figures with arithmetical relations, logicism can include geometry [Quine] |
18200 | Very large sets should be studied in an 'if-then' spirit [Putnam] |
8997 | There are four different possible conventional accounts of geometry [Quine] |
18199 | Indispensability strongly supports predicative sets, and somewhat supports impredicative sets [Putnam] |
8857 | We must quantify over numbers for science; but that commits us to their existence [Putnam] |
8993 | If mathematics follows from definitions, then it is conventional, and part of logic [Quine] |
293 | Being unafraid (perhaps through ignorance) and being brave are two different things [Plato] |