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is on page 202 of 470
"it seems that we ought to interpose between the platonist and the constructivist picture an intermediate picture, say of objects springing into being in response to our probing. We do not make the objects but must accept them as we find them [...] but they were not already there for our statements to be true or false of before we carried out the investigations which brought them into being" (185)
— Dec 01, 2025 02:35PM
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path
is on page 420 of 470
“If we can observe that an event of a certain kind is a sufficient condition of an earlier event of some other kind, it does not seem to matter much whether we choose to call that latter event the ‘cause’ of the earlier or not: the question rather is why we should not use this observed regularity as we use those that operate from earlier to later” (320)
From “Can an Effect Precede its Cause?”
— Dec 06, 2025 08:55AM
From “Can an Effect Precede its Cause?”
path
is on page 292 of 470
“O is small;
If N is small, N + 1 is small;
Therefore, every number is small”
(256)
Wang’s Paradox, the inverse of the Greek paradox of the heap. Imagine a small number (N) such that N + 1 is not also a small number.
A problem in vague statements and the measurement of truth in bivalent terms.
— Dec 04, 2025 04:40AM
If N is small, N + 1 is small;
Therefore, every number is small”
(256)
Wang’s Paradox, the inverse of the Greek paradox of the heap. Imagine a small number (N) such that N + 1 is not also a small number.
A problem in vague statements and the measurement of truth in bivalent terms.
path
is on page 113 of 470
“The mental images that a word may arouse in the mind of a speaker or hearer are irrelevant to its meaning, which consists, rather, in the part played by the word in determining the truth-conditions of sentences in which it occurs” (94)
— Nov 29, 2025 04:41AM
path
is starting
“We no longer explain the sense of a statement by stipulating it’s truth-value in terms of the truth-values of its constituents, but by stipulating the when it may be asserted in terms of the conditions under which its constituents may be asserted” (18). True is what is decidedly or determinantly true by reference to the situation of use.
— Nov 25, 2025 04:42AM
