15 ideas
291 | Don't assume that wisdom is the automatic consequence of old age [Plato] |
12177 | Human artefacts may have essences, in their purposes [Popper] |
20298 | The traditional a priori is justified without experience; post-Quine it became unrevisable by experience [Rey] |
12176 | Science does not aim at ultimate explanations [Popper] |
20300 | Externalist synonymy is there being a correct link to the same external phenomena [Rey] |
20294 | 'Married' does not 'contain' its symmetry, nor 'bigger than' its transitivity [Rey] |
20293 | Analytic judgements can't be explained by contradiction, since that is what is assumed [Rey] |
20297 | Analytic statements are undeniable (because of meaning), rather than unrevisable [Rey] |
20301 | The meaning properties of a term are those which explain how the term is typically used [Rey] |
20302 | An intrinsic language faculty may fix what is meaningful (as well as grammatical) [Rey] |
20303 | Research throws doubts on the claimed intuitions which support analyticity [Rey] |
20299 | If we claim direct insight to what is analytic, how do we know it is not sub-consciously empirical? [Rey] |
293 | Being unafraid (perhaps through ignorance) and being brave are two different things [Plato] |
12175 | Galilean science aimed at true essences, as the ultimate explanations [Popper] |
12179 | Essentialist views of science prevent further questions from being raised [Popper] |