8 ideas
291 | Don't assume that wisdom is the automatic consequence of old age [Plato] |
22153 | Quine rejects Carnap's view that science and philosophy are distinct [Quine, by Boulter] |
13745 | Supervenience is not a dependence relation, on the lines of causal, mereological or semantic dependence [Kim] |
13746 | Supervenience is just a 'surface' relation of pattern covariation, which still needs deeper explanation [Kim] |
19485 | Names have no ontological commitment, because we can deny that they name anything [Quine] |
19486 | We can use quantification for commitment to unnameable things like the real numbers [Quine] |
19487 | Without the analytic/synthetic distinction, Carnap's ontology/empirical distinction collapses [Quine] |
293 | Being unafraid (perhaps through ignorance) and being brave are two different things [Plato] |