16 ideas
291 | Don't assume that wisdom is the automatic consequence of old age [Plato] |
23548 | Indeterminacy is in conflict with classical logic [Fine,K] |
23539 | Classical semantics has referents for names, extensions for predicates, and T or F for sentences [Fine,K] |
23544 | Local indeterminacy concerns a single object, and global indeterminacy covers a range [Fine,K] |
23540 | Conjoining two indefinites by related sentences seems to produce a contradiction [Fine,K] |
23546 | Standardly vagueness involves borderline cases, and a higher standpoint from which they can be seen [Fine,K] |
23542 | Identifying vagueness with ignorance is the common mistake of confusing symptoms with cause [Fine,K] |
23541 | Supervaluation can give no answer to 'who is the last bald man' [Fine,K] |
16641 | Whiteness does not exist, but by it something can exist-as-white [Aquinas] |
23545 | We do not have an intelligible concept of a borderline case [Fine,K] |
22170 | Senses grasp external properties, but the understanding grasps the essential natures of things [Aquinas] |
22169 | Initial universal truths are present within us as potential, to be drawn out by reason [Aquinas] |
22168 | Minds take in a likeness of things, which activates an awaiting potential [Aquinas] |
23547 | It seems absurd that there is no identity of any kind between two objects which involve survival [Fine,K] |
293 | Being unafraid (perhaps through ignorance) and being brave are two different things [Plato] |
23543 | We identify laws with regularities because we mistakenly identify causes with their symptoms [Fine,K] |