Lexicon of Arguments

 

II 126
Inflationism/Field: Inflationism proceeds from facts (unlike the deflationism).
>Inflationism, >Deflationism.
Especially facts about the use of a language.
FieldVs: what kind of facts are this supposed to be?
Deflationism: the homophony condition is sufficient to rule out the fact that we do not use a language with deviating reference - there are no other facts. ((s) Homophony: "Snow is white" is true "iff snow is white; the metalanguage conains the object language.)
>Homophony.
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I 183
Fact/Nonfactualism/Field: E.g. relativistic mass or Eigen-mass in the special relativity theory: no fact decides which hypothesis is to be assumed.
>Nonfactualism, >Relativity theory.
The laws are, however, in some cases easier formulated, depending on the choice.
>Natural laws.
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II 224
Fact/discourse without facts/Nonfactualism/Field: 1. Questions of vagueness (Sorites): E.g. there is no fact, on which "bald" accurately refers
2. Assessment questions/Morality/Ethics
3. sentences with indicators/index words
4. subjunctive conditionals/contrafactual conditionals.
>Discourse, >Discourse theory.
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II 265
"No fact"/Nonfactualism/Field: in pure mathematics, the problem of finding facts about our use of concepts is insoluble.
>Mathematics, >Mathematical entities.
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III 362
Fact/Nonfactualism/Field: it is clear that there is no fact about whether Zermelo's or von Neumann's approach "presents" the things "correctly", there is no fact which decides whether numbers are sets.
>Correctnes, >Representation (Presentation).
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II 373
Belief/Justification/Field: It is pointless to ask whether logical beliefs are dependent on logical facts.
>Justification.
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II 381
Fact/Conditions/Field: instead of a fact there may be e.g. a condition. - E.g. preservation of truth.
>Conditions.
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III 50
Geometry/real facts/Field: (via Euclidean space) are about betweenness and congruence - as in the axioms of Hilbert.
>Ontology, >Axioms, cf. >Second order logic.